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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Mobile, AL

July 3, 1995Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 4:28 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 17 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 1995, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Barbour County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 657 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMGM 032130 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC005-032145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
428 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...BARBOUR COUNTY
 
AT 428 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEAST BARBOUR COUNTY OVER TERESE. THE STORM
WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL MOVE OVER THE LAKE
EUFAULA AREA DURING THE NEXT 15 MINUTES.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES.
 
THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR BARBOUR COUNTY.
 
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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Elmore, Montgomery	33 min
Jul 3, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Macon, Tallapoosa	54 min
Jul 3, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Barbour	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1995 Every 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.