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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Mobile, AL

July 8, 1995Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 2:55 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 1995, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 
TTAA00 KMOB 081955
SVRMGM
ALC131-082030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY MOBILE AL
255 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION ...
 
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
 
   ...WILCOX COUNTY
 
AT 255 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR NEAR
KIMBROUGH MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 30 MPH.
 
THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.
 
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 8ROOM 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 8, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	28 min
Jul 8, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Dallas	29 min
Jul 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Autauga, Lowndes	50 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.