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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 17, 1998Pike County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 1998, 9:21 PM CDT for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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 17, 1998, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 1998, 9:55 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 17, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 1998-04-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 1998-04-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -92 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1196 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-41 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

Special weather statement, Apr 17, 4:19 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBarbour47 min
Apr 17, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes, Montgomery50 min
Apr 18, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter62 min
Apr 18, 9:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene, Sumter45 min
Apr 18, 9:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene33 min
Apr 18, 10:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa32 min
Apr 18, 10:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson62 min
Apr 18, 12:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa45 min
Apr 18, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson45 min
Apr 18, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCalhoun32 min
Apr 18, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa46 min
Apr 18, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas18 min
Apr 18, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCherokee48 min
Apr 18, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton46 min
Apr 18, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXChilton47 min
Apr 18, 6:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXJackson4 hr
Apr 18, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson49 min
Apr 18, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXJackson50 min
Apr 18, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXDallas50 min
Apr 18, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCherokee19 min
Apr 18, 6:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXBlount, Marshall4 hr
Apr 18, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXPerry62 min
Apr 18, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXShelby63 min
Apr 18, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXDeKalb47 min
Apr 18, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXEtowah49 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.