Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 6:23 AM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 6:23 AM CDT (11:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Santa Rosa County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 262 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 101124 SVRMOB FLC113-101200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 623 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...SANTA ROSA COUNTY AT 620 AM CST THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. n REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 10, 1:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
145 AM CDT WED MAY 6, 1995
TIME EVENT
135 AM ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA EMA OFFICIALS REPORTED TREES
AND POWER LINES DbOWN AROUND WALNUT HILL AND HIGHWAY
97.Special weather statement, May 10, 1:55 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-100800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 156 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WALTON COUNTY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT... AT 130 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHERN ALABAMA. THE ACTIVITY EXTENDED FROM BREWTON TO MOLINO AND CONTINUED WESTWARD TO JUST SOUTH OF MOBILE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR BREWTON AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF MOBILE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WALTON COUNTY BY 230 AM.
Special weather statement, May 10, 4:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-101100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 459 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT... AT 435 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE CLUSTER OF T$HUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY TO CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY. ALSO A SEVERE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:33 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-101130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 533 AM CDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR TODAY... AT 525 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS OVER NORTHWEST FLORIDA...SOUTHERN ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND GULF WATERS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF PENSACOLA. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 37 min |
| May 10, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 60 min |
| May 10, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 60 min |
| May 10, 2:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| May 10, 2:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 3 hr |
| May 10, 5:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 61 min |
| May 10, 5:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 5 hr |
| May 10, 5:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.