Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Mar 19, 1998, 7:48 PM CST (01:48 UTC)

Expired

Mar 19, 1998, 8:35 PM CST

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Lawrence County, AL, Winston County, AL

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 200148 RRA
SVRBHM
ALC079-133-200235-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
748 PM CST THU MAR 19 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM AL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 835 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHERN ALABAMA

   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY...
   ...NORTHWESTERN WINSTON COUNTY...

AT 746 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTER REPORTS A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND WINDS OF 60 MPH
NEAR PHIL CAMPBELL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.  THIS STORM WILL AFFECT
THE HALEYVILLE AROUND 755 PM...AND MT. HOPE AROUND 805 PM.



<<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.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.