Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 154, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 19, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 3117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 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 192210 RRA TORBHM ALC101-192245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 510 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 508 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS DETECTED...BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...OVER THE SOUTH PART OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEAR SPRAGUE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE ADA...GIBSON...OAKWOOD... RAMER...AND PINE LEVEL AREAS. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 19, 1:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
ALZ008-010-181825- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT MATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 100 PM CDT FRI JAN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES OF: MARSHALL...DEKALB THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THOSE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ018>021-026-191855- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT MATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 132 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES OF: ETOWAH...CHEROKEE...ST CLAIR CALHOUN...CLEBURN THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE COUNTIES CLEARED EARLIER...NAMELY: MARSHALL...DEKALB THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THOSE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ018>021-026-191855- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT MATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 132 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES OF: ETOWAH...CHEROKEE...ST CLAIR...CALHOUN...CLEBURN THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE COUNTIES CLEARED EARLIER...NAMELY: MARSHALL...DEKALB THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THOSE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ018>021-026-191855- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT MATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 132 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES OF: ETOWAH...CHEROKEE...ST CLAIR CALHOUN...CLEBURN THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE COUNTIES CLEARED EARLIER...NAMELY: MARSHALL...DEKALB THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THOSE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:32 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ018>021-026-191855- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT MATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 132 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES OF: ETOWAH...CHEROKEE...ST CLAIR...CALHOUN...CLEBURN THIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE COUNTIES CLEARED EARLIER...NAMELY: MARSHALL...DEKALB THE STRONG STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THOSE COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 9:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 10:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 11:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 11:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 44 min |
| Jun 19, 12:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Tuscaloosa | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 32 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.