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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 5, 1998Marion County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1998, 11:34 PM CST for Marion County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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: Mar 5, 1998, 11:34 PM CST (05:34 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1998, 12:25 AM CST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Marion County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:35 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

076 
WUUS1 KBHM 060535 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC093-060625-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1134 PM CST THU MAR 5 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1225 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHERN ALABAMA

   ...MARION COUNTY...

AT 1133 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING
MARION COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN ALABAMA.  THIS STORM WAS SOUTHEAST AT 40
MPH...AND WILL AFFECT MOST OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL MARION
COUNTY...INCLUDING HAMILTON...BETWEEN 1135 PM AND 1215 AM.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.



<<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
Mar 6, 12:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Pickens	64 min
Mar 6, 1:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Tuscaloosa	62 min
Mar 6, 1:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	61 min
Mar 6, 2:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa	45 min
Mar 6, 4:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	35 min
Mar 6, 4:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Tallapoosa	48 min
Mar 6, 3:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	26 min
Mar 6, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1998 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.