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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Mobile, AL

July 18, 1995Barbour County, Pike County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1995, 5:26 PM CDT for Barbour County, Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 1995, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Barbour County, AL, Pike County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 1995-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1272 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 1995-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-14 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 182229 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC005-109-182300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
526 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...SOUTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY...SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 526 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM NEAR CLAYTON TO NEAR SHILOH. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
HIGH WINDS...HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS LIKELY
WITH THESE STORMS.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD 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 18, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBHenry, Houston40 min
Jul 18, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBarbour31 min
Jul 18, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBullock34 min
Jul 18, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBarbour34 min
Jul 18, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBPike29 min
Jul 18, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCovington74 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.