Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 654, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 1998, 3:41 PM CDT for Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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
- Oct 7, 1998, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 1998, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tallapoosa County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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, Oct 7, 9:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-080250- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 958 AM CDT WED OCT 7 1998 A VERY SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT REMAINS WEST OF ALABAMA THIS MORNING. A SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS DOES EXIST ACROSS ALABAMA AND THIS WILL ENABLE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP TODAY AND TONIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. WITH THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS SYSTEM...SOME LOCATIONS MAY RECEIVE HEAVY RAINFALL. PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED AN INCH OR TWO OF RAIN AND ANOTHER INCH OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE IN ISOLATED AREAS. SOME SMALL STREAMS MAY BRIEFLY REACH BANKFULL AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY SEE SOME MINOR FLOODING. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... LOOK AT MIASPSTLH. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
Special weather statement, Oct 7, 9:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-080250- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 958 AM CDT WED OCT 7 1998 A VERY SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT REMAINS WEST OF ALABAMA THIS MORNING. A SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS DOES EXIST ACROSS ALABAMA AND THIS WILL ENABLE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP TODAY AND TONIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. WITH THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS SYSTEM...SOME LOCATIONS MAY RECEIVE HEAVY RAINFALL. PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED AN INCH OR TWO OF RAIN AND ANOTHER INCH OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE IN ISOLATED AREAS. SOME SMALL STREAMS MAY BRIEFLY REACH BANKFULL AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY SEE SOME MINOR FLOODING. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... LOOK AT MIASPSTLH. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Pike | 62 min |
| Oct 7, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 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.