Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 450, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 6:02 PM EDT for Quitman County, Stewart County, Georgia. 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, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1998, 7:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Quitman County, GA, Stewart County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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.
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, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
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
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 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, 4:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 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, 5:50 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
ALZ005-007-015-016-024-025-033>035-039-040-052255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 450 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1998 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 514... IN ALABAMA ...LIMESTONE... MORGAN... WALKER... CULLMAN... JEFFERSON... SHELBY ...PERRY... BIBB... CHILTON... MARENGO... DALLAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Shelby | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 4:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 4:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 5:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 5:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 5:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker, Winston | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 6:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 6:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 6:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 6:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, Marshall | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 6:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 6:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 6:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 7:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair, Shelby | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 7:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 7:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne, Talladega | 18 min |
| Jun 5, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 3:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 80 min |
| Jun 5, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 77 min |
| Jun 5, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 77 min |
| Jun 5, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa | 96 min |
| Jun 5, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 80 min |
| Jun 5, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 78 min |
| Jun 5, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 79 min |
| Jun 5, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 5:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 5:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, DeKalb | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 6:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 51 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.