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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Mobile, AL

August 17, 1995Bullock County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1995, 4:11 PM CDT for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 1995, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Bullock County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 1995-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1012 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 1995-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -39 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
1012 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1339 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-36 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 172112 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC011-172200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
411 PM CDT THU AUG 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...BULLOCK COUNTY
 
AT 410 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN BULLOCK COUNTY
NEAR FITZPATRICK AND MITCHELL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY
SOUTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH.
 
 
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
Aug 16, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin58 min
Aug 16, 9:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBBaldwin2 hr
Aug 16, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile57 min
Aug 17, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBullock47 min
Aug 17, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin61 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.