Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 503, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 3:07 AM CDT for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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 16, 1998, 3:07 AM CDT (08:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 3:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Limestone County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 588 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
653 WUUS1 KBHM 160807 RRA SVRBHM ALC083-160855- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 307 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LIMESTONE COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 355 AM CDT * AT 305 AM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN...BY WEATHER RADAR JUST ENTERING SOUTHWEST LIMESTONE COUNTY NEAR RIPLEY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR THE CITY OF ATHENS BEFORE 330 AM. 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 15, 10:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
ALZ001-029-160420- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1055 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA... FRANKLINE...LAWRENCE...MORGAN...MARSHALL...MARION...WINSTON...CULLMAN ...LAMAR...FAYETTE...WALKER...BLOUNT...PICKENS...TUSCALOOSA... JEFFERSON...SHELBY...ST CLAIR THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS EAST AND SOUTH OF THE CLEARED AREA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. A NEW WATCH MAY BE ISSUED BEFORE MIDNIGHT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA WHERE STRONG OR SEVERE STORMS COULD PERSIST FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
ALZ001-029-160420- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1055 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA... FRANKLINE...LAWRENCE...MORGAN...MARSHALL...MARION...WINSTON...CULLMAN ...LAMAR...FAYETTE...WALKER...BLOUNT...PICKENS...TUSCALOOSA... JEFFERSON...SHELBY...ST CLAIR THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS EAST AND SOUTH OF THE CLEARED AREA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. A NEW WATCH MAY BE ISSUED BEFORE MIDNIGHT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA WHERE STRONG OR SEVERE STORMS COULD PERSIST FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 12:03 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
ALZ001>051-054-057-058-160535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1203 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 589 NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR ALABAMA... NO ADDITIONAL WATCHES ARE ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME AS THE SEVERE THREAT IS DECREASING. HOWEVER...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Marengo | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 65 min |
| Jun 15, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore, Montgomery | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Marengo | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Etowah, St. Clair | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Marshall | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 63 min |
| Jun 15, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Cleburne, Randolph | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 10:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Dallas | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Coosa | 49 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.