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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 569, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 5:13 PM EDT for Muscogee County, Georgia. 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 25, 1998, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muscogee County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 548 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
255 WUUS1 KBHM 252114 RRA SVRBHM GAC215-252145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 413 PM CDT THU JUN 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MUSCOGEE COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT (445 PM CDT) * AT 512 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN...BY WEATHER RADAR OVER MUSCOGEE COUNTY...OVER THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. DIME TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. DAMAGING WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM IF AND WHEN IT COLLAPSES DURING THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION 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
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 4:50 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
ALZ046-048>050-057-058-060-065>069-GAZ089-090-102-120-260850- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 350 PM CDT THU JUN 25 1998 ...AN EXCESSIVE HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH FRIDAY... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE EXCESSIVE HEAT ADVISORY... IN ALABAMA ...BULLOCK... RUSSELL... PIKE... BARBOUR... BUTLER... CRENSHAW ...COVINGTON... COFFEE... DALE... HENRY... GENEVA... HOUSTON IN GEORGIA ...MUSCOGEE... CHATTAHOOCHEE... STEWART... QUITMAN . AN UPPER RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO REMAIN ANCHORED OVER ALABAMA THROUGH FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL ONCE AGAIN APPROACH THE 100 DEGREE MARK ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA FRIDAY AFTERNOON. COMBINED WITH THE HUMID AIR...HEAT INDICES WILL CLIMB TO BETWEEN 110 AND 115 DEGREES. TEMPERATURES AT NIGHT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW 75 DEGREES...MEANING THAT THE AIR WILL REMAIN STAGNANT AND OPPRESSIVE. ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL PROVIDE RELIEF FOR A FEW SPOTS BUT HEAT INDICES WILL REACH CRITICAL LEVELS BEFORE THE STORMS DEVELOP.
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 4:50 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
ALZ046-048>050-057-058-060-065>069-GAZ089-090-102-120-260850- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 350 PM CDT THU JUN 25 1998 ...AN EXCESSIVE HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH FRIDAY... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE EXCESSIVE HEAT ADVISORY... IN ALABAMA ...BULLOCK... RUSSELL... PIKE... BARBOUR... BUTLER... CRENSHAW ...COVINGTON... COFFEE... DALE... HENRY... GENEVA... HOUSTON IN GEORGIA ...MUSCOGEE... CHATTAHOOCHEE... STEWART... QUITMAN . AN UPPER RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO REMAIN ANCHORED OVER ALABAMA THROUGH FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL ONCE AGAIN APPROACH THE 100 DEGREE MARK ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA FRIDAY AFTERNOON. COMBINED WITH THE HUMID AIR...HEAT INDICES WILL CLIMB TO BETWEEN 110 AND 115 DEGREES. TEMPERATURES AT NIGHT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW 75 DEGREES...MEANING THAT THE AIR WILL REMAIN STAGNANT AND OPPRESSIVE. ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL PROVIDE RELIEF FOR A FEW SPOTS BUT HEAT INDICES WILL REACH CRITICAL LEVELS BEFORE THE STORMS DEVELOP.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Stewart | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.