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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1998, 3:31 PM CST for Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 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
- Feb 26, 1998, 3:31 PM CST (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1998, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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.
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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 262131 RRA SVRBHM ALC105-262230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 331 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...PERRY COUNTY AT 330 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN PERRY COUNTY. THE COMMUNITY OF MORGAN SPRINGS WILL BE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTH-EAST AT 45 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR EL ECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, 5 hours 56 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, 5 hours 56 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, 5 hours 21 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, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 58 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, 3:42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.