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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Mobile, AL

August 19, 1995Pike County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 11:27 PM CDT for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 19, 1995, 11:27 PM CDT (04:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 20, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Pike County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1167 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2155 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 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 200428 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC109-200530-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
ISSUED BY BIRMINGHAM AL
1127 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 1125 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHERN PIKE
COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MILES AND HOUR. THIS STORM
WILL AFFECT COMMUNITIES SUCH AS CHINA GROVE...BRIAR HILL...AND SHADY
GROVE FIRST BETWEEN 1140 PM AND MIDNIGHT. IF THE STORM MAINTAINS ITS
INTENSITY IT MAY MOVE THROUGH TROY AND THE REMAINDER OF PIKE COUNTY.
THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND PRODUCING
LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADWAYS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RA~IN.
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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Houston	43 min
Aug 19, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Pike	62 min
Aug 19, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Dale	62 min
Aug 19, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Coffee	46 min
Aug 19, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Chambers	65 min
Aug 19, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Lee	63 min
Aug 19, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Geneva	46 min
Aug 19, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	61 min
Aug 19, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Tallapoosa	68 min
Aug 19, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Elmore, Macon	66 min
Aug 19, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Montgomery	58 min
Aug 19, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Autauga	60 min
Aug 19, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Bullock	69 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.