Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1995, 4:48 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 1995, 4:48 PM CST (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 1995, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 802 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 152246 RRA SVRMOB ALC003-152330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 448 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 ...BALDWIN COUNTY AT 442 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN BALDWIN COUNTY...THIS TIME LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF ROBERTSDALE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH...AND SHOULD MOVE TO NEAR GATESWOOD AROUND 530 PM OR A LITTLE SOONER. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM IS LARGE HAIL...NUMEROUS REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL HAVE ALREADY BEEN RECEIVED FROM SIMILAR STORMS IN BALDWIN COUNTY EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. 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.
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, 1 hour 18 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, 1 hour 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, 4:43 PM CST, 5 minutes before
FLZ002-004-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 445 PM CST WED MAR 15 1995 ...SPECIAL MARINE STATEMENT FOR ESCABIA AND SANTA ROSA COASTAL WATERS... AT 430 PM CST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY PENSACOLA RADAR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PENSACOLA FLORIDA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN BALDWIN COUNTY NEAR STOCKTON AND NORTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY NEAR CRESTVIEW. 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, 4:45 PM CST, 3 minutes before
FLZ002-004-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 445 PM CST WED MAR 15 1995 ...SPECIAL MARINE STATEMENT FOR ESCABIA AND SANTA ROSA COASTAL WATERS... AT 430 PM CST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY PENSACOLA RADAR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PENSACOLA FLORIDA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN BALDWIN COUNTY NEAR STOCKTON AND NORTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY NEAR CRESTVIEW. 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 10:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 12:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 55 min |
| Mar 15, 12:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 61 min |
| Mar 15, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 60 min |
| Mar 15, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 58 min |
| Mar 15, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 63 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.