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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Mobile, AL

July 9, 1995Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 6:16 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 1995, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 2527 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1212 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 092317 RRA
SVRMOB
MSC153-100015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
616 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE NORTH
PART OF WAYNE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ALONG HWY 45
AND WILL APPROACH WAYNESBORO BETWEEN 630 AND 645 PM. THE PRIMARY THREAT
FROM THIS STORM IS FROM DIME SIZE OR LARGER HAIL.
 
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

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

ALZ061-063-062-064-FLZ001-002-005-006-003-004-506-ALZ501-092245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
443 PM CDT SUN JUL 9 1995

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR MOBILE AND
BALDWIN COUNTIES OF ALABAMA AND ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA AND OKALOOSA
COUNTIES OF NORHTWEST FLORIDA...

...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS OF
ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA FROM PETIT BOIS ISLAND EAST TO DESTIN...

THE BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED SOUTH OFF THE COAST OF
ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND IS MOVING SOUTHWARD AT 30 KNOTS.
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A FEW MINUTES AGO WINDS OF GREATER THAN 50 KNOTS
IN THE COASTAL WATERS.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	62 min
Jul 9, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.