Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 446, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 4:27 PM CDT for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 5, 1998, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1998, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bullock 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 052127 RRA SVRBHM ALC011-052230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 427 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BULLOCK COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 425 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN...BY WEATHER RADAR MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. IT WILL LIKLEY AFFECT ALL COMMUNITIES IN THE COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
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, 29 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, 29 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, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 63 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, 4:37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.