Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 166, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 1998, 4:02 PM CDT for Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 28, 1998, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 1998, 4:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
370 WFUS1 KBHM 282103 RRA TORBHM ALC087-282135- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 402 PM CDT MON SEP 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MACON COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 435 PM CDT * AT 401 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS DETECTED...BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR NEAR SAGEFIELD MOVING NORTH NORTHWEST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR FT DAVIS. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 40 min |
| Sep 28, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 20 min |
| Sep 28, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 35 min |
| Sep 28, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 35 min |
| Sep 28, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 36 min |
| Sep 28, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 17 min |
| Sep 28, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 33 min |
| Sep 28, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 19 min |
| Sep 28, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 34 min |
| Sep 28, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 34 min |
| Sep 28, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 40 min |
| Sep 28, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 35 min |
| Sep 28, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 35 min |
| Sep 28, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 36 min |
| Sep 28, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 36 min |
| Sep 28, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 32 min |
| Sep 28, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon, Montgomery | 33 min |
| Sep 28, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 30 min |
| Sep 28, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 32 min |
| Sep 28, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 32 min |
| Sep 28, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 34 min |
| Sep 28, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 31 min |
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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.