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Tornado Warning 183, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 29, 1998Russell County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 4:02 AM CDT for Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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 29, 1998, 4:02 AM CDT (09:02 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 1998, 4:50 AM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Russell County, AL

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 28, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 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 00:00Z on 1998-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 333 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 00:00Z on 1998-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
333 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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.

679 
WFUS1 KBHM 290903 RRA
TORBHM
ALC113-290950-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
402 AM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 450 AM CDT

* AT 358 AM CDT... A TORNADO WAS DETECTED...BY NATIONAL WEATHER
  SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR COTTONTON AND WILL MOVE
NORTHWEST ACROSS THE COUNTY TO NEAR SEALE BY 420 AM.

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, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLee, Macon35 min
Sep 28, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLee17 min
Sep 28, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXTallapoosa27 min
Sep 29, 6:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXDallas, Lowndes4 hr
Sep 29, 9:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXDallas, Lowndes, Montgomery6 hr
Sep 29, 9:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXBarbour, Bullock, Pike6 hr
Sep 29, 12:06 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMacon34 min
Sep 29, 12:42 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXRussell38 min
Sep 29, 12:56 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMacon34 min
Sep 29, 1:21 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXRussell34 min
Sep 29, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLee32 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.