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Tornado Warning 179, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 28, 1998Russell County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 1998, 6:19 PM CDT for Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired
Sep 28, 1998, 6:50 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Russell County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1998-09-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 172 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1998-09-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

199 
WFUS1 KBHM 282320 RRA
TORBHM
ALC113-282350-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
619 PM CDT MON SEP 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RUSSELL COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 650 PM CDT

* AT 617 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS DETECTED...BY NATIONAL WEATHER
  SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR JUST SOUTH OF GLENVILLE.  THE STORM WAS MOVING
NORTH AT 30 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 28, 1:35 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXPike40 min
Sep 28, 1:55 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBarbour20 min
Sep 28, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXPike35 min
Sep 28, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBullock35 min
Sep 28, 2:34 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLowndes36 min
Sep 28, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBarbour17 min
Sep 28, 3:02 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBullock33 min
Sep 28, 3:16 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBarbour19 min
Sep 28, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBullock34 min
Sep 28, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXPike34 min
Sep 28, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMacon33 min
Sep 28, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBullock40 min
Sep 28, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXRussell35 min
Sep 28, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXElmore35 min
Sep 28, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMacon36 min
Sep 28, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBullock36 min
Sep 28, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXElmore32 min
Sep 28, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMacon, Montgomery33 min
Sep 28, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLee, Russell30 min
Sep 28, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXElmore32 min
Sep 28, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBarbour32 min
Sep 28, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXBarbour34 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.