Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 545, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 5:28 PM CDT for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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 19, 1998, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 2155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 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 192228 RRA SVRBHM ALC109-192300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 528 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PIKE COUNTY... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 526 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN...BY WEATHER RADAR...MOVING OVER WESTERN PIKE COUNTY IN THE GOSHEN AREA THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE GOSHEN...HENDERSON AND SPRING HILL AREAS. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF PIKE COUNTY. THESE STORM MAY ALSO BECOME SEVERE. DAMAGING WINDS AHND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
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, 4 hours 25 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, 3 hours 56 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, 3 hours 56 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, 3 hours 56 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, 3 hours 56 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, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 35 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.