Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 659, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1998, 10:47 AM CST for Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 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
- Nov 10, 1998, 10:47 AM CST (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 11:50 AM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pickens County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 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 101647 RRA SVRBHM ALC107-101750- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1047 AM CST TUE NOV 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PICKENS COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 1150 AM CST * AT 1045 AM CST... BY WEATHER RADAR A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN MOVING INTO PICKENS COUNTY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL COVER MOST OF THE COUNTY BEFORE NOON. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.
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, Nov 10, 9:40 AM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-110330- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 940 AM CST TUE NOV 10 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH JUST ISSUED FOR NORTHERN AND WESTERN ALABAMA... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN ALABAMA... A STRONG STORM SYSTEM LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL CONTINUE STRENGTHENING TODAY AND MOVE INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL BEGIN MOVING THROUGH ALABAMA AROUND MID DAY. PRECEEDING THIS FRONT...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR WILL CONTINUE PUMPING GULF MOISTURE INTO THE REGION MAKING THE ATMOSPHERE UNSTABLE. A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER WESTERN ALABAMA BETWEEN 940 AM AND 1000 AM AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THIS LINE WILL PUSH EASTWARD AND MAKE ITS WAY TO I-65 BY AROUND 1130 AM. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...LARGE HAIL...AND TORNADOES. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WILL LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON WATCHES AND WARNINGS STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS. INTEREST IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN ALABAMA SHOULD ACTIVATE NOW AND THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE BY THIS AFTERNOON. 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, Nov 10, 9:40 AM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-110330- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 940 AM CST TUE NOV 10 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH JUST ISSUED FOR NORTHERN AND WESTERN ALABAMA... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN ALABAMA... A STRONG STORM SYSTEM LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL CONTINUE STRENGTHENING TODAY AND MOVE INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL BEGIN MOVING THROUGH ALABAMA AROUND MID DAY. PRECEEDING THIS FRONT...STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR WILL CONTINUE PUMPING GULF MOISTURE INTO THE REGION MAKING THE ATMOSPHERE UNSTABLE. A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER WESTERN ALABAMA BETWEEN 940 AM AND 1000 AM AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THIS LINE WILL PUSH EASTWARD AND MAKE ITS WAY TO I-65 BY AROUND 1130 AM. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...LARGE HAIL...AND TORNADOES. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WILL LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON WATCHES AND WARNINGS STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS. INTEREST IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN ALABAMA SHOULD ACTIVATE NOW AND THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE BY THIS AFTERNOON. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 10:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Marion | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 10:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 49 min |
| Nov 10, 10:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 50 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.