Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1998, 5:46 PM CST for Chilton County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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, 5:46 PM CST (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1998, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chilton County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
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
Local storm report, Feb 26, 5:10 PM CST, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
510 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM TUSCALOOSA AL WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 TUSCALOOSA SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN
DOWN IN TUSCALOOSA.
0315 PM TUSCALOOSA AL WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 TUSCALOOSA A TREE FELL ON A HOUSE IN
YELLOW CREEK. THE PORCH
WAS DAMAGED.
0340 PM OAKMAN AL .88 INCH HAIL
02/26/98 WALKER DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
WAS REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF
OAKMAN ALONG HWY 69.
0345 PM BIRMINGHAM AL .75 INCH HAIL
02/26/98 JEFFERSON DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED AT BIRMINGPORT.
0430 PM ALABASTER AL .5 INCH HAIL
02/26/98 SHELBY PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED
IN ALABASTER.
0445 PM MONTEVALLO AL WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 SHELBY A TREE WAS DOWN ACROSS THE
ROAD IN MONTEVALLO.Local storm report, Feb 26, 5:10 PM CST, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
510 PM CST THU FEB 26 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM TUSCALOOSA AL WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 TUSCALOOSA SEVERAL TREES WERE BLOWN
DOWN IN TUSCALOOSA.
0315 PM TUSCALOOSA AL WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 TUSCALOOSA A TREE FELL ON A HOUSE IN
YELLOW CREEK. THE PORCH
WAS DAMAGED.
0340 PM OAKMAN AL .88 INCH HAIL
02/26/98 WALKER DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
WAS REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF
OAKMAN ALONG HWY 69.
0345 PM BIRMINGHAM AL .75 INCH HAIL
02/26/98 JEFFERSON DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED AT BIRMINGPORT.
0430 PM ALABASTER AL .5 INCH HAIL
02/26/98 SHELBY PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED
IN ALABASTER.
0445 PM MONTEVALLO AL WIND DAMAGE
02/26/98 SHELBY A TREE WAS DOWN ACROSS THE
ROAD IN MONTEVALLO.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, 5:02 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 |
Nearby
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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.