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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Mobile, AL

May 9, 1995Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1995, 2:11 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1995, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1995, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Covington County, AL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 9, 2:30 PM CDTTornado F0Opp, ALA small tornado touched down about four miles northwest of Opp blowing the side off a mobile home, overturning a pump house, and downing several trees and power lines.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 37 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
37 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-329 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 7:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile55 min
May 9, 10:10 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBMobile65 min
May 9, 12:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia68 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.