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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 238, NWS Mobile, AL

July 12, 1995Choctaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1995, 6:53 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1995, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Choctaw County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1611 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
1611 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 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 122353
SVRMOB
ALC023-130100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
653 PM CDT WED JUL 12 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...CHOCTAW COUNTY
 
AT 650 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AT THE CHOCTAW
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING WEST AROUND 15
MPH. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD BARRYTOWN AND WILL PASS JUST NORTH OF
BOLLINGER IN SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WILL APPROACH
BUTLER FROM THE EAST AROUND 730 PM.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBLowndes22 min
Jul 12, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.