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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Mobile, AL

July 8, 1995Dallas County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 2:46 PM CDT for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 1995, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Dallas County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 233 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMGM 081946 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC047-082015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
246 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...DALLAS COUNTY
 
AT 245 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
NORTHEAST DALLAS COUNTY BETWEEN SELMA AND BURNSVILLE. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED TREE DAMAGE IN THE
SELMA AREA IN THE PAST 15 MINUTES.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	28 min
Jul 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Autauga, Lowndes	50 min
Jul 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	35 min
Jul 8, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	67 min
Jul 8, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	41 min
Jul 8, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	56 min
Jul 8, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	69 min
Jul 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	60 min
Jul 8, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	42 min
Jul 8, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	116 min
Jul 8, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.