Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 387, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1998, 4:22 PM CDT for Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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
- May 26, 1998, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1998, 4:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:24 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Grant, AL | Numerous trees and several powerlines were reported down on Highway 79 east of Grant. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
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, May 26, 1:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 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.
Local storm report, May 26, 3:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 65 min |
| May 26, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.