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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Mobile, AL

April 11, 1995Choctaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1995, 7:14 AM CDT for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 11, 1995, 7:14 AM CDT (12:14 UTC)
Expired
Apr 11, 1995, 8:15 AM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Choctaw County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-04-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 12:00Z on 1995-04-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 201 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
415 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 KMOB 111215 RRA
SVRMOB
ALC023-111315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
714 AM CDT TUE APR 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...CHOCTAW COUNTY
 
AT 714 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVAxNCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 11, 9:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox57 min
Apr 11, 9:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBDallas64 min
Apr 11, 11:12 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBElmore48 min
Apr 11, 12:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBTallapoosa69 min
Apr 11, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCrenshaw59 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.