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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 287, NWS Mobile, AL

August 2, 1995Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1995, 3:10 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1995, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Barbour County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1263 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 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 022012 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC005-022100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
310 PM CDT WED AUG 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...BARBOUR COUNTY
 
AT 310 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE EASTERN PART OF BARBOUR COUNTY
IN THE EUFAULA AREA.  STRONG WIND AND HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE
STORMS.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT
CLAYTON AND CLIO AROUND 330 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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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.