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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL

April 23, 1995Chambers County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 1995, 6:32 PM CDT for Chambers County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 1995, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Chambers County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMGM 232335
TORMGM
ALC017-240030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
632 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...CHAMBERS COUNTY
 
AT 630 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO ASSOSSIATED WITH A THUNDERSTORM PRESENTLY LOCATED IN EXTREME
SOUTHWEST CHAMBERS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH AND HAD PRODUCED GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL AS IT PASSED THROUGH LEE
COUNTY.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PERSONS IN ITS PATH SHOULD SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 9:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	55 min
Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler	60 min
Apr 23, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Lowndes	32 min
Apr 23, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Montgomery	67 min
Apr 23, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Bullock, Macon	55 min
Apr 23, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Chambers, Lee, Tallapoosa	67 min
Apr 23, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Chambers, Lee, Tallapoosa	59 min
Apr 23, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Macon	59 min
Apr 23, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	50 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.