Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1998, 1:49 AM CST for Lamar County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 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 6, 1998, 1:49 AM CST (07:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1998, 2:50 AM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lamar County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 060749 RRA SVRBHM ALC075-060850- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 149 AM CST FRI MAR 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 250 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...LAMAR COUNTY... AT 148 AM CST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI-ALABAMA BORDER NEAR MOLLOY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE 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 PROTvECTION 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.
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, Mar 6, 1:48 AM CST, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
148 AM CST FRI MAR 06 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0136 AM MILLPORT AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/06/98 LAMAR
0146 AM MOORES BRIDGE AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/06/98 TUSCALOOSA GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED AT
MAYFIELD COMMUNITY NEAR
MOORES BRIDGEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 11:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 51 min |
| 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, 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, 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.