Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 173, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 1998, 5:03 PM CDT for Elmore County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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
- Sep 28, 1998, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 1998, 5:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elmore County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Wetumpka, AL | A tornado moved northwest across western Elmore county from just northeast of Wetumka to just northwest of the Wallsboro community. Some minor damage was reported at the Julia Tutwiler Prison . Trees and power lines were down in Wallsboro and a doctor's offic |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 88 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.
742 WFUS1 KBHM 282204 RRA TORBHM ALC051-282235- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 503 PM CDT MON SEP 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ELMORE COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 535 PM CDT * AT 502 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS DETECTED...BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES SOUTH OF TALLASSEE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTH-NORTHWEST AT 50 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 33 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, 5:12 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 |
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.