Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 443, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 4:02 PM CDT for Lowndes County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min. 3 reports 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
- Jun 5, 1998, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1998, 5:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lowndes County, AL, Montgomery County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Maxwell Afb, AL | |
| Jun 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Montgomery, AL | |
| Jun 5, 4:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Mt Meigs, AL |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 2789 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
296 WUUS1 KBHM 052101 RRA SVRBHM ALC085-101-052205- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 402 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LOWNDES COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA MONTGOMERY COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 505 PM CDT * AT 401 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWN BY WEATHER RADAR MOVING INTO LOWNDES AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES FROM THE NORTHWEST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL 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, Jun 5, 3:58 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
ALZ001>004-011>014-022-023-030>032-052130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 358 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 514... LAUDERDALE...FRANKLIN...COLBERT...LAWRENCE...MARION...WINSTON... LAMAR...FAYETTE...PICKENS...TUSCALOOSA...SUMTER...GREENE AND HALE. CONTINUE OTHER PORTIONS OF WATCH NUMBER 514 AND ALL OF WATCH 515.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 3:58 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
ALZ001>004-011>014-022-023-030>032-052130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 358 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 514... LAUDERDALE...FRANKLIN...COLBERT...LAWRENCE...MARION...WINSTON... LAMAR...FAYETTE...PICKENS...TUSCALOOSA...SUMTER...GREENE AND HALE. CONTINUE OTHER PORTIONS OF WATCH NUMBER 514 AND ALL OF WATCH 515.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Shelby | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 4:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker, Winston | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 5:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 5:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, Marshall | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 6:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair, Shelby | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 6:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne, Talladega | 18 min |
| Jun 5, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 80 min |
| Jun 5, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 77 min |
| Jun 5, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 77 min |
| Jun 5, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa | 96 min |
| Jun 5, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 80 min |
| Jun 5, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 78 min |
| Jun 5, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 79 min |
| Jun 5, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, DeKalb | 64 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.