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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 513, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 16, 1998Clay County, Coosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 4:46 PM CDT for Clay County, Coosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1998, 5:35 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clay County, AL, Coosa County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 16, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 539 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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

Local storm report, Jun 16, 11:02 AM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED ALEXANDER CITY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1021 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0730 PM    DEMOPOLIS                 AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   MARENGO                        TREES DOWNED.

0730 PM                              AL   1 INCH HAIL
06/15/98   SUMTER

0755 PM    DEMOPOLIS                 AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   MARENGO                        NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN AROUND
                                          DEMOPOLIS. POWER OUTAGES
                                          ACROSS THE COUNTY. SOME
                                          TRUCKS OVERTURNED.

0800 PM    CUBA                      AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   SUMTER                         TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          IN CUBA. TREES DOWN NORTH
                                          AND SOUTH OF YORK. SOME
                                          HOMES DAMAGED. QUARTER
                                          SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR
                                          CUBA.

0805 PM    CUBA                      AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   SUMTER                         5 TREES DOWNED.

0820 PM    GREENSBORO                AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   HALE                           TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          IN GREENSBORO. SOME MINOR
                                          ROOF DAMAGE. NUMEROUS
                                          POWER OUTAGES.

0820 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   HALE                           TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          IN GREENSBORO. SOME ROOFS
                                          DAMAGED.

0825 PM    COTTONDALE                AL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/98   TUSCALOOSA

0825 PM                              AL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/98   TUSCALOOSA                     DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN
                                          COTTONDALE..HOLT..AND
                                          OTHER COMMUNITIES.

0830 PM    GREENSBORO                AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   HALE                           TREES AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWN...ROOFS DAMAGED.

0830 PM    DEMOPOLIS                 AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   MARENGO                        TRUCKS OVERTURNED.

0830 PM    DEMOPOLIS                 AL   .88 INCH HAIL
06/15/98   MARENGO

0830 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   MARENGO                        TREES DOWN NORTH OF
                                          DEMOPOLIS. NICKEL SIZED
                                          HAIL REPORTED.

0840 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   JEFFERSON                      NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES
                                          AND POWERLINES DOWNED
                                          ACROSS THE COUNTY.

0850 PM    GADSDEN                   AL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/98   ETOWAH                         WIND GUST OF 54 MPH ALSO
                                          REPORTED.

0900 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   DALLAS                         TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          AT OLD WARVILLE ROAD AND
                                          HIGHWAY 219.

0914 PM    BIRMINGHAM                AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   JEFFERSON                      TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT
                                          BIRMINGHAM AREA. SOME WERE
                                          BLOCKING ROADS.

0921 PM    BIRMINGHAM ARPT           AL   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/15/98   JEFFERSON                      WIND GUST OF 52 KNOTS

0927 PM    BIRMINGHAM ARPT           AL   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/15/98   JEFFERSON

0956 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   AUTAUGA                        NUMEROUS TREES AND
                                          POWERLINES DOWNED ACROSS
                                          THE NORTHERN PART OF THE
                                          COUNTY.

0957 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   ELMORE                         WIND DAMAGE TO BOATING
                                          HOUSE IN LAKE JORDAN AREA.

1014 PM    ALEXANDER CITY            AL   75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/15/98   TALLAPOOSA

1015 PM    ALEXANDER CITY            AL   TORNADO
06/15/98   TALLAPOOSA                     POSSIBLE TORNADO SPOTTED
                                          BY PUBLIC IN ALEXANDER CITY
                                          AREA...AND POWERLINE
                                          TRANSFORMERS SEEN
                                          EXPLODING.

1037 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/98   ETOWAH                         TREES AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWNED ACROSS THE
                                          NORTHEAST PART OF COUNTY.F

Local storm report, Jun 16, 3:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
313 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0223 PM                              AL   .5 INCH HAIL
06/16/98   DALLAS                         MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN MARION
                                          JUNCTION.  REPORTED BY
                                          STATE POLICE POST.

0240 PM    SELMA                     AL   .88 INCH HAIL
06/16/98   DALLAS                         NICKEL SIZED HAIL REPORTED
                                          IN SELMA BY EMA DIRECTOR.

0250 PM    SELMA                     AL   1 INCH HAIL
06/16/98   DALLAS                         QUARTER SIZED HAIL
                                          REPORTED IN DOWNTOWN SELMA.
0250 PM    SELMA                     AL   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/16/98   DALLAS                         FLYING DEBRIS IN DOWNTOWN
                                          SELMA.  POWER OUTAGES
                                          CITYWIDE.  WINDS WERE
                                          ESTIMATED AT 70 MPH BY
                                          EMA.

0301 PM    SWEET WATER               AL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98   MARENGO                        DIMED SIZE HAIL COVERING
                                          THE GROUND AT THE SWEET
                                          WATER FIRE DEPT.  6 MILES
                                          NORTHWEST OF SWEET WATER.

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, 3:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	48 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

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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.