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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 214, NWS Mobile, AL

July 8, 1995Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 5:52 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 1995, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Mobile County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 27 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 COUNTYWIDE

Local storm report, Jul 8, 4:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 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 COUNTYWIDE

Local storm report, Jul 8, 5:25 PM CDT, 27 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, 26 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, 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, 4:15 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

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.