Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1995, 6:15 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1995, 6:15 AM CST (12:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1995, 6:42 AM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 281213 RRA SVRMOB ALC097-281245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 615 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...MOBILE COUNTY AT 615 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER MOBILE COUNTY FROM 10 TO 15 MILES NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF MOBILE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. 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 28, 3:55 AM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-061-MSZ075>079-281200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 358 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1995 AT 357 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL PARTS OVER PEARLE RIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO PERRY...AND STONE COUNTIES AFTER 4 AM ...THEN GREENE AND GEORGE COUNTIES AFTER 430 AM...THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTIES ALABAMA BEFORE SUNRISE. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. STAYZ TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL BROADCAST STATIONS FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 3:56 AM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-061-MSZ075>079-281200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 358 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1995 AT 358 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL PARTS OVER PEARLE RIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO PERRY...AND STONE COUNTIES AFTER 4 AM ...THEN GREENE AND GEORGE COUNTIES AFTER 430 AM...THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTIES IN ALABAMA BEFORE SUNRISE. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND` POSSIBLE HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL BROADCAST STATIONS FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 3:58 AM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-061-MSZ075>079-281200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 358 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1995 AT 357 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL PARTS OVER PEARLE RIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO PERRY...AND STONE COUNTIES AFTER 4 AM ...THEN GREENE AND GEORGE COUNTIES AFTER 430 AM...THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTIES ALABAMA BEFORE SUNRISE. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL BROADCAST STATIONS FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 5:46 AM CST, 29 minutes before
FLZ001-002-003-004-281245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 550 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA... AT 540 CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA TOWARDS THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...VERY GUSTY WIND AND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BE SURE TO ALLOW EXTRA DRIVING TIME THIS MORNING IF YOU ARE IN THE MENTIONES AREAS.
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 5:50 AM CST, 25 minutes before
FLZ001-002-003-004-281245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 550 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA... AT 540 CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA TOWARDS THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...VERY GUSTY WIND AND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BE SURE TO ALLOW EXTRA DRIVING TIME THIS MORNING IF YOU ARE IN THE MENTIONES AREAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 5:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 57 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.