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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 234, NWS Mobile, AL

July 11, 1995Lowndes County, Montgomery County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1995, 6:58 PM CDT for Lowndes County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1995, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lowndes County, AL, Montgomery County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1488 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1488 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1205 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 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 KBHM 112358 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC085-101-120030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
658 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...LOWNDES COUNTY...SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY
 
AT 657 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
EXTREME SOUTHWEST MONTGOMERY COUNTY...NEAR DAVENPORT. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST LOWNDES
COUNTY NEAR FORT DEPOSIT BY 715 PM.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULDF MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBHenry42 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.