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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Mobile, AL

October 27, 1995Washington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1995, 6:19 PM CDT for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 1995, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 1625 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 8.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 272321
TORMOB
ALC129-280015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
619 PM CDT FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 618 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM
NEAR BUCKATUNA...MS. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST AT 40 MPH THROUGH 730 PM
AND WILL APPROACH YARBO ABOUT 700 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 27, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	69 min
Oct 27, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	59 min
Oct 27, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	62 min
Oct 27, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	56 min
Oct 27, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	59 min
Oct 27, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	42 min
Oct 27, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	63 min
Oct 27, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	56 min
Oct 27, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	25 min
Oct 27, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	69 min
Oct 27, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	69 min
Oct 27, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	67 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.