Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 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 082116 RRA SVRMOB ALC003-053-082215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 415 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...BALDWIN COUNTY...ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 4:13 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHERN BALDWIN AND WESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE NORTHERN HALF OF BALDWIN COUNTY AND THE WESTERN HALF OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY AL BEFORE 5:15 PM. 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 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, 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, 4:18 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
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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.