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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Mobile, AL

March 15, 1995Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1995, 4:27 PM CST for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 15, 1995, 4:27 PM CST (22:27 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 1995, 5:30 PM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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 1995-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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 KMOB 152232 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC099-152330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
427 PM CST WED MAR 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY
 
MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTHEAST OF
MONROEVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH
MONROEVILLE BY 500 PM.
 
THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 15, 3:30 PM CST, 57 minutes before
FLZ002-004-152230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
330 PM CST WED MAR 15 1995

...SPECIAL MARINE STATEMENT FOR ESCABIA AND SANTA ROSA COASTAL WATERS...

AT 330 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY PENSACOLA RADAR
ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA FLORIDA.  ANOTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORM
WAS INDICATED IN BALDWIN COUNTY BETWEEN BAY MINNETE AND STOCKTON.

ELSEWHERE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE
FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

ALL ACTIVITY IS MOVING NORTHEAST 15 TO 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Mar 15, 3:48 PM CST, 39 minutes before
FLZ002-004-152230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
330 PM CST WED MAR 15 1995

...SPECIAL MARINE STATEMENT FOR ESCABIA AND SANTA ROSA COASTAL WATERS...

AT 330 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY PENSACOLA RADAR
ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA FLORIDA.  ANOTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORM
WAS INDICATED IN BALDWIN COUNTY BETWEEN BAY MINNETE AND STOCKTON.

ELSEWHERE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE
FLORIDA PANHANDLE...SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

ALL ACTIVITY IS MOVING NORTHEAST 15 TO 20 MPH.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 10:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile47 min
Mar 15, 12:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin55 min
Mar 15, 12:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile61 min
Mar 15, 1:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin60 min
Mar 15, 2:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin58 min
Mar 15, 4:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.