Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 5:35 PM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1995, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Santa Rosa County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 262 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 082235 RRA SVRMOB FLC113-082330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 535 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...SANTA ROSA COUNTY AT 5:32 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTH THROUGH SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. A SEVERE STORM IN THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTH DOWN THE ESCAMBIA FL-SANTA ROSA FL COUNTY BORDER NEAR MOLINO. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL AFFECT COTTAGE HILL...PENSACOLA CANTONEMENT...MILTON AND BAGDAD THROUGH 630 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE. 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 8, 4:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
425 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995
FOLLOWING IS SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS RECEIVED UP TO 415 PM...
WIND DAMAGE
305 PM WILCOX AL A FEW TREES DOWN IN CAMDEN.
316 PM CHOCTAW AL WIND DAMAGE
THE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
REPORTED TREES DOWN ON POWER
LINES IN GILBERTOWN.
WIND DAMAGE
330 PM CLARKE AL THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
TREES BLOWN DOWN COUNTYWIDELocal storm report, Jul 8, 4:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
425 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995
FOLLOWING IS SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS RECEIVED UP TO 415 PM...
WIND DAMAGE
305 PM WILCOX AL A FEW TREES DOWN IN CAMDEN.
316 PM CHOCTAW AL WIND DAMAGE
THE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
REPORTED TREES DOWN ON POWER
LINES IN GILBERTOWN.
WIND DAMAGE
330 PM CLARKE AL THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
TREES BLOWN DOWN COUNTYWIDELocal storm report, Jul 8, 5:25 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
525 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995
ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS RECEIVED UP TO 5415 PM...
WIND DAMAGE
330 PM WASHINGTON AL A FEW TREES DOWN IN CAMDEN.
414 PM MOBILE AL WIND DAMAGE
CITRONELLE PD REPORTED TREES
AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
CITRONELLE.
WIND DAMAGE
415 PM CONECUH AL THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
BETWEEN BURNT CORN AND
EVERGREEN.Local storm report, Jul 8, 5:26 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
525 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995
ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS RECEIVED UP TO 515 PM...
WIND DAMAGE
330 PM WASHINGTON AL A FEW TREES DOWN IN CAMDEN.
414 PM MOBILE AL WIND DAMAGE
CITRONELLE PD REPORTED TREES
AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
CITRONELLE.
WIND DAMAGE
415 PM CONECUH AL THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
BETWEEN BURNT CORN AND
EVERGREEN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1995Every 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.