Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 3, 1995, 6:33 PM CST for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 1995, 6:33 PM CST (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 1995, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 040035 RRA SVRMOB ALC053-040100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 633 PM CST FRI FEB 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 632 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR KIRKLAND TO BREWTON. PEOPLE IN FISHPOND...DAMASCUS...RIVERVIEW AND DIXONVILLE WILL EXPERIENCE THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS BEFORE 650 PM. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNINNG...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, Feb 3, 4:46 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-MSZ075>082-032350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 446 PM CST FRI FEB 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AT 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON... AT 445 PM THIS AFTERNOON...A 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM FULTON ALABAMA...TO CHATHAM ALABAMA TO PERKINSTON MISSISSIPPI. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN HARRISON ...GEORGE AND JACKSON COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. BY 545 PM...THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED FROM MONROEVILLE ALABAMA...TO THE WESTERN SUBURBS OF MOBILE...TO PASGAGOULA MISSISSSIPPI. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORM WILL BE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND HALF-INCH DIAMTER HAIL. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN GEORGE AND SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTIES OF ALABAMA...AND SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY OF ALABAMA. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 4:48 PM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-MSZ075>082-032350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 446 PM CST FRI FEB 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AT 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON... AT 445 PM THIS AFTERNOON...A 10 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM FULTON ALABAMA...TO CHATHAM ALABAMA TO PERKINSTON MISSISSIPPI. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN HARRISON ...GEORGE AND JACKSON COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. BY 545 PM...THESE STORMS WILL BE LOCATED FROM MONROEVILLE ALABAMA...TO THE WESTERN SUBURBS OF MOBILE...TO PASGAGOULA MISSISSSIPPI. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORM WILL BE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND HALF-INCH DIAMTER HAIL. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN GEORGE AND SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTIES OF ALABAMA...AND SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY OF ALABAMA. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 5:54 PM CST, 39 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-040100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 600 PM CST FRI FEB 03 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTHWEST FLORIDA... STRONG THUNDERSTOMS WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO SANAT ROSA COUNTY ONCE THEY PASS THROUGH ESCAMBIA COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 6:00 PM CST, 33 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-040100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 600 PM CST FRI FEB 03 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTHWEST FLORIDA... STRONG THUNDERSTOMS WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO SANAT ROSA COUNTY ONCE THEY PASS THROUGH ESCAMBIA COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 6:29 PM CST, 4 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-040130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 630 PM CST FRI FEB 03 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... AT 630 PM CST... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTOMS WAS MOVING INTO ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES OF FLORIDA. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE VERY GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL AND POSSIBLE TORNADOS. IF A STORNG THUNDERSTORM THREATENS TAKE THE NECES2SARY ACTION IMMEDIATELY. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Feb 3, 6:30 PM CST, 3 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-040130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 630 PM CST FRI FEB 03 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... AT 630 PM CST... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTOMS WAS MOVING INTO ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES OF FLORIDA. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE VERY GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HAIL AND POSSIBLE TORNADOS. IF A STORNG THUNDERSTORM THREATENS TAKE THE NECESSARY ACTION IMMEDIATELY. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 48 min |
| Feb 3, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 45 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.