Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1998, 5:02 PM CST for Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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
- Feb 26, 1998, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1998, 5:50 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Talladega County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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, 5:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Talladega, AL | A few trees were down in Talladega including one on a car. |
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, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 61 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.
022 WUUS1 KBHM 262303 RRA SVRBHM ALC121-262350- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 502 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 550 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA ...TALLADEGA COUNTY... AT 459 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME EASTERN SHELBY COUNTY...FROM NEAR VINCENT...SOUTHWARD TO NEAR CALERA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH...AND WILL MOVE ACROSS MOST OF TALLADEGA COUNTY BETWEEN 500 PM AND 550 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL REMAIN LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. <<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.
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, 3:31 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, 5:07 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.