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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Mobile, AL

July 11, 1995Henry County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1995, 3:03 PM CDT for Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1995, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Henry County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2727 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2727 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 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 KTLH 112007 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC067-112045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY TALLAHASSEE FL
303 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...HENRY COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME EASTERN HENRY
COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT 5 TO 10 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER... LARGE
HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM... GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBPike42 min
Jul 11, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCrenshaw60 min
Jul 11, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBLowndes, Montgomery32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 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.