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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 4:32 PM CST for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 4:32 PM CST (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 5:05 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Limestone County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
604 WUUS1 KBHM 032234 RRA SVRBHM ALC083-032305- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 432 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 505 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA ...SOUTHEASTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY... AT 431 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER MOOREVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. <<CALL TO ACTION>> A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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
Local storm report, Apr 3, 3:42 PM CST, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
342 PM CST FRI APR 03 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM OWENS XRDS AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MADISON DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN OWENS
CROSSROADS.
0243 PM WOODVILLE AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 JACKSON GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN WOODVILLE.
0320 PM OMAHA GA TORNADO
04/03/98 STEWART A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON
THE GROUND NEAR THE OMAHA
COMMUNITY.
0327 PM HIGDON AL .88 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 JACKSON NICKEL HAIL WAS REPORTED
IN HIGDON.Local storm report, Apr 3, 3:42 PM CST, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
342 PM CST FRI APR 03 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM OWENS XRDS AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MADISON DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN OWENS
CROSSROADS.
0243 PM WOODVILLE AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 JACKSON GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN WOODVILLE.
0320 PM OMAHA GA TORNADO
04/03/98 STEWART A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON
THE GROUND NEAR THE OMAHA
COMMUNITY.
0327 PM HIGDON AL .88 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 JACKSON NICKEL HAIL WAS REPORTED
IN HIGDON.The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 1:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 1:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 1:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 2:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 2:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 2:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 16 min |
| Apr 3, 2:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 2:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 3:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 4:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Marshall | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 63 min |
| Apr 3, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.