Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1995, 12:12 AM CDT for Choctaw County, Alabama; Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 1995, 12:12 AM CDT (05:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 1995, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Wayne County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 2096 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.0
- Supercell composite
- 14.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 210515 SVRMOB ALC023-MSC153-210600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1212 AM CDT FRI APR 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...WAYNE COUNTY AT 1215 AM CDT...MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM BUTLER IN CHOCTAW COUNTY TO HIWANNEE IN WAYNE COUNTY AND SOUTHWEST TO NEAR HATTIESBURG. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST- NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE BUTLER AND GILBERTOWN IN CHOCTAW COUNTY...AND WAYNESBORO AND BUCKATUNNA IN WAYNE COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LIThTLE OR NO ADVANCE 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 64 min |
| Apr 21, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coosa | 69 min |
| Apr 21, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Dallas | 64 min |
| Apr 21, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 63 min |
| Apr 21, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Autauga | 63 min |
| Apr 21, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Coosa, Elmore | 60 min |
| Apr 21, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 42 min |
| Apr 21, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 68 min |
| Apr 21, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 59 min |
| Apr 21, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 61 min |
| Apr 21, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Tallapoosa | 60 min |
| Apr 21, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 68 min |
| Apr 21, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 65 min |
| Apr 21, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 55 min |
| Apr 21, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 2:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 40 min |
| Apr 21, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.