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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Mobile, AL

May 28, 1995Perry County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 5:36 PM CDT for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1994 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1994 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 282235
SVRMOB
MSC111-282345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
536 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...PERRY COUNTY
 
AT 534 PM MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HATTIESBURG
MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO
NORTHERN JONES COUNTY AND PASS NEAR RUNNELSTOWN AND RICHTON BY 600 PM.
 
 
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWayne52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.