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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 257, NWS Mobile, AL

July 18, 1995Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1995, 8:21 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 1995, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 103 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 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
103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2155 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 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 
WUUS1 KMGM 190122
SVRMGM
ALC131-190230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY MOBILE AL
821 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION ...
 
IN SOUTH ALABAMA
 
   ...WILCOX COUNTY
 
AT 820 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN CAMDEN AND KIMBROUGH. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST
AT 15 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE YELLOW BLUFF...COY...AND LOWER PEACH TREE.
 
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 18, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia74 min
Jul 18, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin65 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.