Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 7:12 PM CST for Chambers 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, 7:12 PM CST (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chambers County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 2522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 151 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 676 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 34.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
545 WUUS1 KBHM 040114 RRA SVRBHM ALC017-040145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 712 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...CHAMBERS COUNTY... AT 711 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAFAYETTE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. <<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
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 5:20 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
ALZ004>005-014-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 520 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA... LIMESTONE...LAWRENCE...AND WINSTON THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NINE COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF THE CLEARED COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 5:20 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
ALZ004>005-014-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 520 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA... LIMESTONE...LAWRENCE...AND WINSTON THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NINE COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF THE CLEARED COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 5:53 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
ALZ006>007-016-040015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 553 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA... MADISON...MORGAN...AND CULLMAN. THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SIX COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF THE CLEARED COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 5:53 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
ALZ006>007-016-040015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 553 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA... MADISON...MORGAN...AND CULLMAN. THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SIX COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF THE CLEARED COUNTIES.
Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:06 PM CST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
706 PM CST FRI APR 03 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0357 PM MOULTON AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 LAWRENCE DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED NE OF MOULTON
0424 PM HARVEST AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MADISON DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN HARVEST.
0437 PM HARTSELLE AL WIND DAMAGE
04/03/98 MORGAN A FEW TREES WERE DOWN
SOUTH OF HARTSELLE.
0440 PM HAZEL GREEN AL 1 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MADISON HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
WAS REPORTED IN HAZEL
GREEN.
0518 PM UNION GROVE AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MARSHALL DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN UNION GROVE.
0555 PM ALBERTVILLE AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MARSHALL DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED JUST OUTSIDE
ALBERTVILLE.
0615 PM RAINSVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
04/03/98 DEKALB TREES WERE DOWN BETWEEN
RAINSVILLE AND FT PAYNE
0634 PM GADSDEN AL WIND DAMAGE
04/03/98 ETOWAH A FEW TREES AND POWER
LINES WERE DOWN IN
GADSDEN.Local storm report, Apr 3, 7:06 PM CST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
706 PM CST FRI APR 03 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0357 PM MOULTON AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 LAWRENCE DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED NE OF MOULTON
0424 PM HARVEST AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MADISON DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN HARVEST.
0437 PM HARTSELLE AL WIND DAMAGE
04/03/98 MORGAN A FEW TREES WERE DOWN
SOUTH OF HARTSELLE.
0440 PM HAZEL GREEN AL 1 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MADISON HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
WAS REPORTED IN HAZEL
GREEN.
0518 PM UNION GROVE AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MARSHALL DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN UNION GROVE.
0555 PM ALBERTVILLE AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MARSHALL DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED JUST OUTSIDE
ALBERTVILLE.
0615 PM RAINSVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
04/03/98 DEKALB TREES WERE DOWN BETWEEN
RAINSVILLE AND FT PAYNE
0634 PM GADSDEN AL WIND DAMAGE
04/03/98 ETOWAH A FEW TREES AND POWER
LINES WERE DOWN IN
GADSDEN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 6:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 7:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.