Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 2:20 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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 8, 1998, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 2:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 8, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 880 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
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 8, 9:46 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-090245- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 946 AM CDT WED APR 8 1998 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND WILL APPROACH THE WESTERN ALABAMA BORDER BEFORE NOON TODAY. ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTHERN ALABAMA SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEASTWARD FROM THE GULF. AS THE AFTERNOON APPROACHES...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA WILL BECOME FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND WATCHES WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ALSO...SOUTHERN ALABAMA WILL CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND THESE STORMS WILL AS WELL HAVE SEVERE POTENTIAL. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. 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, Apr 8, 9:46 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-090245- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 946 AM CDT WED APR 8 1998 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND WILL APPROACH THE WESTERN ALABAMA BORDER BEFORE NOON TODAY. ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTHERN ALABAMA SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEASTWARD FROM THE GULF. AS THE AFTERNOON APPROACHES...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA WILL BECOME FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND WATCHES WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ALSO...SOUTHERN ALABAMA WILL CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND THESE STORMS WILL AS WELL HAVE SEVERE POTENTIAL. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. 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/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 10:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 65 min |
| Apr 8, 10:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 11:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Tallapoosa | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 50 min |
| Apr 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 50 min |
| Apr 8, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 7:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Quitman | 49 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.