Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1995, 6:21 PM CDT for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1995, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coffee County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 2942 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 112318 SVRMGM ALC031-120030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL 621 PM CDT THU MAY 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA ...COFFEE COUNTY AT 620 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR OPP MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. HAIL...HIGH WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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
Special weather statement, May 11, 1:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-506-111845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 135 PM CDT THU MAY 11 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BAY...WAHINGTON...HOLMES AND WALTON COUNTIES UNTIL 4PM CDT... AT 130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN CENTRAL BAY COUNTY. LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WERE OVER THE GULF 20 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA AND FORT WALTON BEACH. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 11, 2:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-506-112045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 235 PM CDT THU MAY 11 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BAY...WAHINGTON...HOLMES AND WALTON COUNTIES UNTIL 4PM CDT... AT 230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS OVER BAY AND HOLMES COUNTIES. LIGHT SHOWERS WERE OVER THE GULF SOUTH OF FORT WALTON BEACH AND DESTIN. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 11, 3:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
FLZ007-008-009-010-012-506-112145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 335 PM CDT THU MAY 11 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BAY...WAHINGTON...HOLMES AND WALTON COUNTIES UNTIL 4PM CDT... AT 330 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN HOLMES COUNTY MOVINT NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THIS AREA CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND FRON THE STORM. ELSEWHERE LIGHT SHOWERS WERE JUST OFFSHORE SOUTH OF PANAMA CITY WHILE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OFF THE SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COAST.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 11:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 3 hr |
| May 11, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 68 min |
| May 11, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Geneva | 55 min |
| May 11, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 60 min |
| May 11, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dale, Houston | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 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.