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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Mobile, AL

July 13, 1995Choctaw County, Alabama

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1622 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 1995-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
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

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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.
                   N

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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.