Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1995, 4:29 PM CDT for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1995, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dallas County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 2110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMGM 172130 RRA SVRMGM ALC047-172200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL 429 PM CDT MON JUL 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...EASTERN DALLAS COUNTY AT 425PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN DALLAS COUNTY SOUTH OF SELMA NEAR SARDIS. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE NEAR PLEASANT HILL WITHIN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES. 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. WOUS01KAWN 0
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 17, 12:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1255 PM CDT MON JUL 17 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1210 PM DESTIN FL LIGHTNING STRIKE
7/17/95 OKALOOSA *** 6 INJ ***
SIX PERSONS ON DESTIN
BEACH WERE STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING. ONE FEMALE WAS
STRUCK AND THE OTHER FIVE
RECEIVED A SHOCK FROM THE
STRIKE. THE FEMALE THAT
WAS DIRECTLY STRUCK WENT
INTO CARDIAC ARREST AND
MEDICS WERE ABLE TO REVIVE
HER. THE OTHER FIVE
PERSONS WERE TREATED AT
THE SCENE. THE STRIKE
OCCURRED ON THE BEACH NEAR
THE HOLIDAY INN IN DESTIN.
A THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST
DEVELOPING IN THE AREA AND
THE PEOPLE WERE POSSIBLY
STRUCK BY THE FIRST BOLT
OF LIGHTNING.
WTNT33KNHC 0Local storm report, Jul 17, 1:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1255 PM CDT MON JUL 17 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1210 PM DESTIN FL LIGHTNING STRIKE
7/17/95 OKALOOSA *** 6 INJ ***
SIX PERSONS ON DESTIN
BEACH WERE STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING. ONE FEMALE WAS
STRUCK AND THE OTHER FIVE
RECEIVED A SHOCK FROM THE
STRIKE. THE FEMALE THAT
WAS DIRECTLY STRUCK WENT
INTO CARDIAC ARREST AND
MEDICS WERE ABLE TO REVIVE
HER. THE OTHER FIVE
PERSONS WERE TREATED AT
THE SCENE. THE STRIKE
OCCURRED ON THE BEACH NEAR
THE HOLIDAY INN IN DESTIN.
A THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST
DEVELOPING IN THE AREA AND
THE PEOPLE WERE POSSIBLY
STRUCK BY THE FIRST BOLT
OF LIGHTNING.The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Jul 17, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.