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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 385, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1998, 3:05 PM CDT for Madison County, Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 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
- May 26, 1998, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1998, 4:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Madison County, AL, Morgan County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 441 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
949 WUUS1 KBHM 262007 RRA SVRBHM ALC089-103-262110- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 305 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA MORGAN COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 410 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING QUATER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL MOVE THROUGH MADISON AND MORGAN COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL IMPACT THE METRO AREAS OF HUNTSVILLE AND DECATUR. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.
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, May 26, 9:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-260205- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 959 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 1998 THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG A COLD FRONT ACROSS TENNESSEE ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD INTO NORTH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY COULD HAVE DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN THE TENNESSEE VALLEY IS A POSSIBILITY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NO SEVERE WEATER IS EXPECTED ELSEWHERE OVER ALABAMA OR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
Special weather statement, May 26, 9:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-260205- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 959 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 1998 THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG A COLD FRONT ACROSS TENNESSEE ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD INTO NORTH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY COULD HAVE DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN THE TENNESSEE VALLEY IS A POSSIBILITY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NO SEVERE WEATER IS EXPECTED ELSEWHERE OVER ALABAMA OR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
Special weather statement, May 26, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
ALZ001>038-262350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 100 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1998 ...FIRST SIGNIFICANT CHANCE OF RAIN FOR NORTH ALABAMA IN THREE WEEKS... A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX OVER WESTERN TENNESSEE HAS SPAWNED AN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST TOWARD ALABAMA...AND BRING THE FIRST CHANCE OF SIGNIFICANT RAIN TO THE NORTHERN PART OF ALABAMA SINCE MAY 11TH. EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM NEAR MUSCLE SHOALS TO YAZOO CITY IN MISSISSIPPI. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO PARTS OF NORTHWEST ALABAMA DURING THE AFTERNOON. IF THE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER...THUNDERSTORMS MAY AFFECT THE HUNTSVILLE...TUSCALOOSA AND BIRMINGHAM AREAS BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WHILE PRODUCING THE FIRST RAIN IN THREE WEEKS...MAY ALSO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 35 min |
| May 26, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 63 min |
| May 26, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 61 min |
| May 26, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 63 min |
| May 26, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 64 min |
| May 26, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 33 min |
| May 26, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 49 min |
| May 26, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 50 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.