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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 312, NWS Mobile, AL

August 19, 1995Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 6:14 PM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 1995, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
46 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, 11.2 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 1995-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1324 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-08-19The 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
1324 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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 192315
SVRMGM
ALC005-200000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
614 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...BARBOUR COUNTY
 
AT 610 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR TO BE
MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE
STRONG GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL THAT MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING
OF ROADS AND STREETS. THE STORM WILL AFFECT TOWNS SUCH AS
BAKERHILL...TERESE...AND TEXASVILLE AND WILL ALSO MOVE THROUGH THE LAKE
EUFAULA AREA.
 
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 19, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBHenry42 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.