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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 304, NWS Mobile, AL

August 17, 1995Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1995, 5:44 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 1995, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 192 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2430 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
2430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1235 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KMOB 172246 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC003-ALZ501-172345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
544 PM CDT THU AUG 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY
 
  AND FOR THE COASTAL WATERS OF
 
  ...MOBILE BAY...
 
AT 545 PM MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH OF
ROBERTSDALE TO DAPHNE. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY SOUTHWEST. THIS STORM WILL
MOVE ACROSS MOBILE BAY AND WINDS ABOVE GALE FOCE ARE LIKELY.
 
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.

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, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBullock49 min
Aug 17, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBullock47 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.