Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1998, 3:07 PM CST for Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 1998, 3:07 PM CST (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 1998, 4:10 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pickens County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
678 WUUS1 KBHM 312108 RRA SVRBHM ALC107-312210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 307 PM CST TUE MAR 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 410 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...PICKENS COUNTY... AT 307 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM A FEW MILES WEST OF ALICEVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. <<CALL TO ACTION>> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK REFUGE FROM THE STORM IN A STRONG BUILDING. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD TAKE SHELTER. DAMAGING WIND... LARGE HAIL... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE ALL LIKELY. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES OR OTHER ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS. THESE ATTRACT LIGHTNING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 9:53 AM CST, 5 hours 14 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-010345- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 953 AM CST TUE MAR 31 1998 A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH ALABAMA FROM THE WEST THIS AFTERNOON...AND MOVE ACROSS MOST OF THE STATE TONIGHT. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF ALABAMA SHORTLY AFTER NOON TODAY...AND MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA DURING THE LATE EVENING OR OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE AIRMASS OVER ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ONLY MARGINALLY UNSTABLE TODAY...AND WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS UNLIKELY. HOWEVER...A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS DURING THE PEAK HEATING OF THE AFTERNOON...WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE STRONGEST OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...WHERE THE UPPER LEVEL WINDS AND ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY WILL BE MOST SUPPORTIVE. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER TODAY. FOR THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...LOOK AT MIASPSTLH. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 9:53 AM CST, 5 hours 14 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-010345- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 953 AM CST TUE MAR 31 1998 A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH ALABAMA FROM THE WEST THIS AFTERNOON...AND MOVE ACROSS MOST OF THE STATE TONIGHT. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF ALABAMA SHORTLY AFTER NOON TODAY...AND MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA DURING THE LATE EVENING OR OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE AIRMASS OVER ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN ONLY MARGINALLY UNSTABLE TODAY...AND WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS UNLIKELY. HOWEVER...A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS DURING THE PEAK HEATING OF THE AFTERNOON...WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE STRONGEST OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...WHERE THE UPPER LEVEL WINDS AND ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY WILL BE MOST SUPPORTIVE. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER TODAY. FOR THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...LOOK AT MIASPSTLH. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT: HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
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.