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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Mobile, AL

March 18, 1995Lee County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1995, 12:59 PM CST for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min.

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The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 18, 1995, 12:59 PM CST (18:59 UTC)
Expired
Mar 18, 1995, 2:00 PM CST
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 1995-03-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 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 1995-03-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 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 KMGM 181953 RRA
SVRMGM
ALC081-182000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
1259 PM CST THU MAR 18 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST ALABAMA

   ...LEE COUNTY

AT 1:00 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY INDICATED
A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER EASTERN LEE COUNTY MOVING
SOUTHWEST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR.


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
Mar 18, 1:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBHouston56 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.