Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 1998, 12:08 PM CST for Coosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1998, 12:08 PM CST (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1998, 12:55 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coosa County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 12:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Stewartsville, AL | Dime size hail was reported in Unity community, in the northwest part of the county. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 587 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 690 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, Feb 16, 7:40 AM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
ALZ030>033-039>069-FLZ001>015-GAZ089-090-102-120-161500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 740 AM CST MON FEB 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR SOUTH ALABAMA...WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF ALABAMA FOR THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 7:40 AM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
ALZ030>033-039>069-FLZ001>015-GAZ089-090-102-120-161500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 740 AM CST MON FEB 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR SOUTH ALABAMA...WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL SECTIONS OF ALABAMA FOR THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 9:30 AM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-162300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 930 AM CST MON FEB 16 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF ALABAMA...AND WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED ABOUT THE SOUTHERN ONE THIRD OF ALABAMA...AND SECTIONS OF WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA UNDER A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE REMAINDER OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA ...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY...IS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK. HOWEVER...PEOPLE IN THE TENNESSEE VALLEY SHOULD ALSO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO LATER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS...SINCE THIS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING AND INTENSE SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NECESSARY BY THIS AFTERNOON...AND POSSIBLY THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE AREA TONIGHT. A WARM FRONT WAS MOVING NORTH ACROSS SOUTHERN ALABAMA THIS MORNING AND WILL LIFT NORTHWARD ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA TODAY INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THERE MAY ALSO BE SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS...ALLOWING THE AIR MASS TO DESTABILIZE QUICKLY. ALSO...ANOTHER DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER EAST TEXAS...WILL RACE NORTHEASTWARD TODAY...WHILE A STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AND OTHER FEATURES COME TOGETHER...FIRST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN SPREAD NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT. DUE TO THE FAVORABLE WIND FIELD IN PLACE AND THE APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL FEATURES...SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. FOR 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/INDEX.HTML
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 9:30 AM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-162300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 930 AM CST MON FEB 16 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF ALABAMA...AND WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED ABOUT THE SOUTHERN ONE THIRD OF ALABAMA...AND SECTIONS OF WEST-CENTRAL GEORGIA UNDER A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE REMAINDER OF NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA ...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY...IS UNDER A SLIGHT RISK. HOWEVER...PEOPLE IN THE TENNESSEE VALLEY SHOULD ALSO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO LATER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS...SINCE THIS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING AND INTENSE SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NECESSARY BY THIS AFTERNOON...AND POSSIBLY THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE AREA TONIGHT. A WARM FRONT WAS MOVING NORTH ACROSS SOUTHERN ALABAMA THIS MORNING AND WILL LIFT NORTHWARD ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA TODAY INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THERE MAY ALSO BE SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS...ALLOWING THE AIR MASS TO DESTABILIZE QUICKLY. ALSO...ANOTHER DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER EAST TEXAS...WILL RACE NORTHEASTWARD TODAY...WHILE A STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AND OTHER FEATURES COME TOGETHER...FIRST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN SPREAD NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT. DUE TO THE FAVORABLE WIND FIELD IN PLACE AND THE APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL FEATURES...SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. FOR 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/INDEX.HTML
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.