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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 14, 1998Etowah County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1998, 6:13 PM CDT for Etowah County, Alabama. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 1998, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 1998, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Etowah County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 14, 6:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Southside, AL	Dime size hail was reported covering the ground in Southside.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 14, 5:17 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
517 PM CDT TUE APR 14 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0354 PM    GADSDEN                   AL   .5 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   ETOWAH

0403 PM    FAIRFIELD                 AL   1.25 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   JEFFERSON

0404 PM    BIRMINGHAM                AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   JEFFERSON

0406 PM    FRANKLIN                  AL   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   MACON

0410 PM    ENSLEY                    AL   1 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   JEFFERSON

0420 PM    BIRMINGHAM                AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   JEFFERSON                      HAIL AT BEACON PARKWAY

0425 PM    HOMEWOOD                  AL   1 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   JEFFERSON

0430 PM    TUSKEGEE                  AL   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   MACON

0434 PM    INVERNESS                 AL   1 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   SHELBY                         GRAYSTONE AREA ALONG
                                          HIGHWAY 280 OF SHELBY
                                          COUNTY

0436 PM    INVERNESS                 AL   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   SHELBY                         DIME SIZE HAIL AT OLD
                                          CALDWELL MILL ROAD

Local storm report, Apr 14, 5:17 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
517 PM CDT TUE APR 14 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0354 PM    GADSDEN                   AL   .5 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   ETOWAH

0403 PM    FAIRFIELD                 AL   1.25 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   JEFFERSON

0404 PM    BIRMINGHAM                AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   JEFFERSON

0406 PM    FRANKLIN                  AL   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   MACON

0410 PM    ENSLEY                    AL   1 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   JEFFERSON

0420 PM    BIRMINGHAM                AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   JEFFERSON                      HAIL AT BEACON PARKWAY

0425 PM    HOMEWOOD                  AL   1 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   JEFFERSON

0430 PM    TUSKEGEE                  AL   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   MACON

0434 PM    INVERNESS                 AL   1 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   SHELBY                         GRAYSTONE AREA ALONG
                                          HIGHWAY 280 OF SHELBY
                                          COUNTY

0436 PM    INVERNESS                 AL   .75 INCH HAIL
04/14/98   SHELBY                         DIME SIZE HAIL AT OLD
                                          CALDWELL MILL ROAD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	44 min
Apr 14, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	32 min
Apr 14, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	61 min
Apr 14, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon, Tallapoosa	49 min
Apr 14, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	48 min
Apr 14, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	19 min
Apr 14, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	50 min
Apr 14, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	45 min
Apr 14, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	33 min
Apr 14, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	47 min
Apr 14, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	46 min
Apr 14, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	47 min
Apr 14, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	65 min
Apr 14, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.