Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1998, 2:32 PM CST for Hale County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports 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
- Feb 26, 1998, 2:32 PM CST (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1998, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hale County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 3:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Tuscaloosa, AL | Several trees were reported down in Tuscaloosa. |
| Feb 26, 3:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Tuscaloosa, AL | A tree fell on a house in Yellow Creek and damaged the porch. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2334 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 262032 RRA SVRBHM ALC065-125-262130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 232 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...HALE COUNTY... ...TUSCALOOSA COUNTY... AT 226 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM EASTERN PICKENS COUNTY NEAR GORDO...SOUTHWARD TO NEAR FORKLAND IN GREENE COUNTY. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH...AND WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY AND NORTHERN HALE COUNTY BETWEEN 230 AND 315 PM. THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TUSCALOOSA AREA BETWEEN 245 PM AND 315 PM. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. <<CALL TO ACTION>> SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Feb 26, 9:35 AM CST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-262000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 935 AM CST TUE FEB 26 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WEST OF A LINE FROM HUNTSVILLE TO MONTGOMERY. ALTHOUGH SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD EAST INTO ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON...SEVERE WEATHER IS FORECAST TO REMAIN WEST OF THE STATE UNTIL TONIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN WEST ALABAMA WILL BE AFTER 9 PM AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE STATE. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN WEST ALABAMA MAY BE NECESSARY THIS EVENING. FOR 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, Feb 26, 9:35 AM CST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-262000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 935 AM CST TUE FEB 26 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT WEST OF A LINE FROM HUNTSVILLE TO MONTGOMERY. ALTHOUGH SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD EAST INTO ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON...SEVERE WEATHER IS FORECAST TO REMAIN WEST OF THE STATE UNTIL TONIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN WEST ALABAMA WILL BE AFTER 9 PM AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE STATE. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN WEST ALABAMA MAY BE NECESSARY THIS EVENING. FOR 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, Feb 26, 10:10 AM CST, 4 hours 22 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-262000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDTAED FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1010 AM CST TUE FEB 26 1998 THE SLIGHT RISK AREA FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING HAS BEEN EXTENDED EAST TO INCLUDE ALL OF ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. STRONG STORMS WERE JUST CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT 10 AM AND MAY REACH WEST ALABAMA BY MID AFTERNOON...AND THEN CONTINUE EASTWARD THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN WEST ALABAMA MAY BE NECESSARY BY MID AFTERNOON...AND ELSEWHERE THIS EVENING. FOR MORE WEZATHER 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Sumter | 49 min |
| Feb 26, 2:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 3:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 35 min |
| Feb 26, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 93 min |
| Feb 26, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 59 min |
| Feb 26, 3:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 40 min |
| Feb 26, 4:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 31 min |
| Feb 26, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 4:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton | 49 min |
| Feb 26, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 63 min |
| Feb 26, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 49 min |
| Feb 26, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.