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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL

April 11, 1995Elmore County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 1995, 11:12 AM CDT for Elmore County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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: Apr 11, 1995, 11:12 AM CDT (16:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 1995, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Elmore County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 11, 11:15 AM CDT	Tornado F1	Elmore, AL	What appeared to be a small tornado damaged a section of Elmore County from Millbrook to Elmore in the western part of the county. The area affected paralleled Highway 14. Aluminum skirting was ripped off about 20 mobile homes at one mobile home park, and nu

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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMGM 111615
TORMGM
ALC051-111700-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL
1112 AM CDT TUE APR 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MONTGOMERY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
 
   ...ELMORE COUNTY
 
AT 11:05 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MONTGOMERY INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO ELMORE COUNTY. THE LINE OF
STORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES PER HOUR.
 
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 ROO|M 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
Apr 11, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	61 min
Apr 11, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	57 min
Apr 11, 9:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Dallas	64 min
Apr 11, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Tallapoosa	69 min
Apr 11, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	59 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.