Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1998, 4:14 PM CST for Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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
- Mar 8, 1998, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 4:50 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cullman County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
133 WUUS1 KBHM 082218 RRA SVRBHM ALC043-082250- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 414 PM CST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 450 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA ...NORTHERN CULLMAN COUNTY... AT 414 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR SPRING HILL...NORTH OF THE CITY OF CULLMAN...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. <<CALL TO ACTION>> 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 11:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 29 min |
| Mar 7, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 11:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 12:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Pike | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 1:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 1:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 1:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 20 min |
| Mar 8, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 7:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Randolph | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 8:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 8:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Pike | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 11:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 11:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 11:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Russell | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 11:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bullock, Pike | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 12:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 2:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 3:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bullock, Pike | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 3:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Etowah | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 3:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 18 min |
| Mar 8, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair, Talladega | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 4:09 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Randolph | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 51 min |
| Mar 8, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 18 min |
| Mar 8, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Tallapoosa | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 17 min |
Nearby
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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.