Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 544, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 4:10 PM CDT for Autauga County, Chilton County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1998, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 4:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Autauga County, AL, Chilton County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 4:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Maplesville, AL | Trees were down in Maplesville. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 3117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 19, 1:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
ALZ008-010-181825- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT MATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 100 PM CDT FRI JAN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES OF: MARSHALL...DEKALB THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THOSE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ018>021-026-191855- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT MATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 132 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES OF: ETOWAH...CHEROKEE...ST CLAIR CALHOUN...CLEBURN THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE COUNTIES CLEARED EARLIER...NAMELY: MARSHALL...DEKALB THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THOSE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ018>021-026-191855- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT MATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 132 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES OF: ETOWAH...CHEROKEE...ST CLAIR...CALHOUN...CLEBURN THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE COUNTIES CLEARED EARLIER...NAMELY: MARSHALL...DEKALB THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THOSE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ018>021-026-191855- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT MATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 132 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES OF: ETOWAH...CHEROKEE...ST CLAIR CALHOUN...CLEBURN THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE COUNTIES CLEARED EARLIER...NAMELY: MARSHALL...DEKALB THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THOSE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ018>021-026-191855- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT MATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 132 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES OF: ETOWAH...CHEROKEE...ST CLAIR...CALHOUN...CLEBURN THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE COUNTIES CLEARED EARLIER...NAMELY: MARSHALL...DEKALB THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THOSE COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 9:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 10:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 11:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 11:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 44 min |
| Jun 19, 12:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Tuscaloosa | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Quitman, Stewart | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.