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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Mobile, AL

June 24, 1995Houston County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1995, 5:38 PM CDT for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1995, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Houston County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1022 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 242241 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC069-242330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY TALLAHASSEE FL
538 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...HOUSTON COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHWEST HOUSTON COUNTY NEAR
MADRID. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. MADRID AND
HODGESVILLE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS ARE
LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER... LARGE
HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM... GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

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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.