Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 3:12 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1995, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 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 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1622 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1190 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 132009 RRA SVRMOB ALC023-132115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 312 PM CDT THU JUL 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...CHOCTAW COUNTY AT 3:07 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN BUTLER AND CROMWELL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH AND WILL APPROACH LAND AND MELVIN THROUGH BY 4 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.
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 13, 12:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1250 PM CDT THU JUL 13 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
AFTN TUNNEL SPRINGS AL LIGHTNING
07/03/95 MONROE A 10 YEAR OLD MALE WAS
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING WHILE
GOING INTO HIS HOME TO GET
OUT OF AN APPROACHING
STORM. LIGHTNING STRUCK A
TREE AND JUMPED TO HIM.
THE LIGHTNING KNOCKED HIS
SHOES OFF. HE IS STILL IN
A LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE WAS
PROBABLY STRUCK BY THE
FIRST CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM THE
STORM.
0245 PM MOBILE BAY AL WIND DAMAGE
07/12/95 BALDWIN WATERSPOUT
POWER LINES AND POLES WERE
BLOWN DOWN NEAR TENSAW
RIVER EAST OF CAUSEWAY
BRIDGE. A CITIZEN
REPORTED A WHITE WALL OF
WATER. MINOR DAMAGE
OCCURRED.
0325 PM MOBILE AL WIND DAMAGE
07/12/95 MOBILE WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH
WERE REPORTED NEAR BENDER
SHIPYARD WHICH IS JUST
SOUTH OF I 10 WALLACE
TUNNEL.
0320 PM FOLEY AL WIND DAMAGE
07/12/95 BALDWIN A ROOF AND CANOPY WERE
PEELED BACK FROM THE FRONT
OF A BUILDING BY THE WIND.
0420 PM CHUMUCKLA FL WIND DAMAGE
07/12/95 SANTA ROSA TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN.
TIME WAS ESTIMATED.
0715 PM HODGEWOOD AL WIND DAMAGE
07/12/95 CHOCTAW SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN
DOWN. POWER OUTAGES WERE
ALSO REPORTED IN
BARRYTOWN.Local storm report, Jul 13, 12:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1250 PM CDT THU JUL 13 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
AFTN TUNNEL SPRINGS AL LIGHTNING
07/03/95 MONROE A 10 YEAR OLD MALE WAS
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING WHILE
GOING INTO HIS HOME TO GET
OUT OF AN APPROACHING
STORM. LIGHTNING STRUCK A
TREE AND JUMPED TO HIM.
THE LIGHTNING KNOCKED HIS
SHOES OFF. HE IS STILL IN
A LOCAL HOSPITAL. HE WAS
PROBABLY STRUCK BY THE
FIRST CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM THE
STORM.
0245 PM MOBILE BAY AL WIND DAMAGE
07/12/95 BALDWIN WATERSPOUT
POWER LINES AND POLES WERE
BLOWN DOWN NEAR TENSAW
RIVER EAST OF CAUSEWAY
BRIDGE. A CITIZEN
REPORTED A WHITE WALL OF
WATER. MINOR DAMAGE
OCCURRED.
0325 PM MOBILE AL WIND DAMAGE
07/12/95 MOBILE WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH
WERE REPORTED NEAR BENDER
SHIPYARD WHICH IS JUST
SOUTH OF I 10 WALLACE
TUNNEL.
0320 PM FOLEY AL WIND DAMAGE
07/12/95 BALDWIN A ROOF AND CANOPY WERE
PEELED BACK FROM THE FRONT
OF A BUILDING BY THE WIND.
0420 PM CHUMUCKLA FL WIND DAMAGE
07/12/95 SANTA ROSA TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN.
TIME WAS ESTIMATED.
0715 PM HODGEWOOD AL WIND DAMAGE
07/12/95 CHOCTAW SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN
DOWN. POWER OUTAGES WERE
ALSO REPORTED IN
BARRYTOWN.
NNearby
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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.