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Tornado Warning 150, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 15, 1998Greene County, Marengo County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1998, 7:40 PM CDT for Greene County, Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 15, 1998, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1998, 8:25 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Greene County, AL, Marengo County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 7:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Demopolis, AL	Trees were down in Demopolis.
Jun 15, 8:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Mt Hebron, AL	Several trees and power lines were down in the Mount Hebron area.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2325 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 5.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 160040 RRA
TORBHM
ALC063-091-160125-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
740 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  MARENGO COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 825 PM CDT

* AT 737 PM CDT...THERE WAS A STRONG INDICATION BY RADAR OF A TORNADO
NEAR LIVINGSTON IN SUMTER COUNTY.  THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING
EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.  TREES HAVE ALREADY BEEN BLOWN DOWN IN
SUMTER COUNTY.

* THE POSSIBLE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN GREEN...AND
POSSIBLY NORTHERN MARENGO COUNTY.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	63 min
Jun 15, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	66 min
Jun 15, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Sumter	50 min
Jun 15, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	50 min
Jun 15, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	48 min
Jun 15, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Walker	47 min
Jun 15, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	50 min
Jun 15, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	64 min
Jun 15, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb	47 min
Jun 15, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	46 min
Jun 15, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton	64 min
Jun 15, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	65 min
Jun 15, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Sumter	50 min
Jun 15, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore, Montgomery	63 min
Jun 15, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Marengo	49 min
Jun 15, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	47 min
Jun 15, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Etowah, St. Clair	64 min
Jun 15, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman, Marshall	48 min
Jun 15, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee	63 min
Jun 15, 10:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	48 min
Jun 15, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	50 min
Jun 15, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	50 min
Jun 15, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	63 min
Jun 15, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Cleburne, Randolph	46 min
Jun 15, 10:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	48 min
Jun 15, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee, Macon	49 min
Jun 15, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton, Dallas	49 min
Jun 15, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore	34 min
Jun 16, 3:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	48 min
Jun 16, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	33 min
Jun 16, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	36 min
Jun 16, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Lowndes	44 min
Jun 16, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	49 min
Jun 16, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	49 min
Jun 16, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	48 min
Jun 16, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	46 min
Jun 16, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	49 min
Jun 16, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	49 min
Jun 16, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Coosa	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.