Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 8:07 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, 8:07 PM CST (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 8:40 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 02:08 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, 2.1 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 2 hours 47 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, 2 hours 47 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, 2 hours 14 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, 2 hours 14 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, 1 hour 1 minute 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, 1 hour 1 minute 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, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 7:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 29 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.