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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL

April 23, 1995Chambers County, Lee County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 1995, 5:53 PM CDT for Chambers County, Lee County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 1995, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chambers County, AL, Lee County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 1995-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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 1995-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 9:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin55 min
Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler60 min
Apr 23, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBLowndes32 min
Apr 23, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMontgomery67 min
Apr 23, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBullock, Macon55 min
Apr 23, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBChambers, Lee, Tallapoosa59 min
Apr 23, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBMacon59 min
Apr 23, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBChambers58 min
Apr 23, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin50 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.