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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Mobile, AL

December 18, 1995Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 18, 1995, 8:02 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 18, 1995, 8:02 AM CST (14:02 UTC)
Expired: Dec 18, 1995, 9:00 AM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:04 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 487 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 777 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 181402
TORMOB
ALC097-181500-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
802 AM CST MON DEC 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
 
   ...MOBILE COUNTY
 
 
 
 
AT 759 AM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ON
THE AL/MS BORDER JUST SOUTHWEST OF DEES. THE STORM WAS MOVING
NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE TOWARDS WEST MOBILE NEAR THE
BATES FIELD AIRPORT THROUGH 815 AM.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEM:ENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 17, 7:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	62 min
Dec 17, 7:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	64 min
Dec 17, 9:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	68 min
Dec 18, 7:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	68 min
Dec 18, 8:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	59 min
Dec 18, 10:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	64 min
Dec 18, 11:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	56 min
Dec 18, 3:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	56 min
Dec 18, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	63 min
Dec 18, 3:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	68 min
Dec 18, 3:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Washington	6 hr
Dec 18, 4:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	59 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.