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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL

January 7, 1995Lowndes County, Montgomery County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 7, 1995, 4:15 PM CST for Lowndes County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 7, 1995, 4:15 PM CST (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jan 7, 1995, 5:00 PM CST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lowndes County, AL, Montgomery County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-01-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1995-01-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -139 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175Sfc1 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
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
94 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-185 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
Jan 6, 6:18 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBBarbour27 min
Jan 6, 6:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin30 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.