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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 9, 1998Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1998, 5:02 AM EDT for Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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 9, 1998, 5:02 AM EDT (09:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 9, 1998, 5:50 AM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Stewart County, GA

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 9, 2:30 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 771 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 8.3

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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

Local storm report, Apr 9, 1:57 AM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 9, 2:11 AM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 8:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	49 min
Apr 8, 8:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Franklin	51 min
Apr 8, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar	50 min
Apr 8, 8:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa, Tallapoosa	45 min
Apr 8, 8:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marion	47 min
Apr 8, 8:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert	46 min
Apr 8, 8:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cullman	35 min
Apr 8, 8:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marshall	47 min
Apr 8, 8:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Colbert	49 min
Apr 8, 8:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	48 min
Apr 8, 8:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Winston	48 min
Apr 8, 8:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	48 min
Apr 8, 8:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Blount	46 min
Apr 8, 8:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	50 min
Apr 8, 8:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lawrence	49 min
Apr 8, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	63 min
Apr 8, 8:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	64 min
Apr 8, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	66 min
Apr 8, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	51 min
Apr 8, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	50 min
Apr 8, 9:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	DeKalb	63 min
Apr 8, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Randolph	49 min
Apr 8, 9:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	47 min
Apr 8, 9:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	49 min
Apr 8, 9:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	50 min
Apr 8, 9:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	33 min
Apr 8, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	49 min
Apr 8, 9:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	63 min
Apr 8, 9:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	St. Clair	46 min
Apr 8, 9:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Hale	36 min
Apr 8, 9:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cherokee, Etowah	51 min
Apr 8, 9:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	49 min
Apr 8, 10:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bibb	50 min
Apr 8, 10:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	63 min
Apr 8, 10:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	49 min
Apr 8, 10:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	48 min
Apr 8, 10:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	65 min
Apr 8, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone, Madison	50 min
Apr 8, 10:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Shelby	48 min
Apr 8, 10:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	47 min
Apr 8, 10:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cleburne	48 min
Apr 8, 10:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	47 min
Apr 8, 10:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	33 min
Apr 8, 11:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	50 min
Apr 8, 11:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	46 min
Apr 8, 11:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	48 min
Apr 8, 11:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	34 min
Apr 8, 11:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	31 min
Apr 8, 11:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	33 min
Apr 8, 11:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Perry	45 min
Apr 8, 11:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	49 min
Apr 8, 11:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	45 min
Apr 9, 12:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair, Shelby	62 min
Apr 9, 12:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	47 min
Apr 9, 12:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton, Shelby	48 min
Apr 9, 12:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	50 min
Apr 9, 12:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	33 min
Apr 9, 1:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	48 min
Apr 9, 1:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	50 min
Apr 9, 1:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph, Tallapoosa	45 min
Apr 9, 2:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	48 min
Apr 9, 4:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	34 min
Apr 9, 4:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	49 min

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.