Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 4, 1995, 1:41 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
- Oct 4, 1995, 1:41 PM CDT (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 1995, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Covington County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Andalusia, AL | A tornado briefly touched down on U.S. Highway 12 between Andalusia and River Falls. Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 041842 TORMOB ALC039-041945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 141 PM CDT WED OCT 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH ALABAMA ...COVINGTON COUNTY AT 140 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF FLORALA. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NORTHWEST TOWARDS ANDALUSIA AND RED LEVEL DURING THROUGH 245 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 9:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 53 min |
| Oct 4, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 60 min |
| Oct 4, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.