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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 272, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 30, 1998Pike County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1998, 4:43 PM CDT for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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 30, 1998, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1998, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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 12:00Z on 1998-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 158 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1998-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes47 min
Apr 30, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery45 min
Apr 30, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXEtowah46 min
Apr 30, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery34 min
Apr 30, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock31 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.