Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 187, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 12:56 PM CDT for Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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, 12:56 PM CDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 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 29, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
329 WFUS1 KBHM 291757 RRA TORBHM ALC087-291830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1256 PM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MACON COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1253 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS DETECTED...BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR OVER WESTERN RUSSEL COUNTY JUST NORTH OF HURTSBORO MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE BETWEEN CREEK STAND AND SOCIETY HILL SHORTLY AFTER 1 PM. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
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, Sep 29, 10:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-300240- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1007 AM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 GEORGES HAS NOW WEAKENED TO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION...AND WAS OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS MORNING. IT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA THROUGH TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES...CAN BE EXPECTED EAST OF THE CENTER OF THE TROPICAL SYSTEM...TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT OF ADDITIONAL FLOODING...AND SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 7 PM CDT/8 PM EDT...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SAME AREA THROUGH TODAY. AS LONG AS THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION REMAINS OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THERE WILL BE LITTLE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER OVER NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY...AND MAY ALSO BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...LOOK AT MIASPSTLH. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
Special weather statement, Sep 29, 10:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-300240- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1007 AM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 GEORGES HAS NOW WEAKENED TO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION...AND WAS OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS MORNING. IT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA THROUGH TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES...CAN BE EXPECTED EAST OF THE CENTER OF THE TROPICAL SYSTEM...TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT OF ADDITIONAL FLOODING...AND SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 7 PM CDT/8 PM EDT...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE SAME AREA THROUGH TODAY. AS LONG AS THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION REMAINS OVER SOUTH ALABAMA...THERE WILL BE LITTLE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER OVER NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY...AND MAY ALSO BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...LOOK AT MIASPSTLH. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon | 35 min |
| Sep 28, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 17 min |
| Sep 28, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 27 min |
| Sep 29, 4:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 6:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas, Lowndes | 4 hr |
| Sep 29, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Dallas, Lowndes, Montgomery | 6 hr |
| Sep 29, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock, Pike | 6 hr |
| Sep 29, 12:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 34 min |
| Sep 29, 12:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 38 min |
| Sep 29, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 34 min |
| Sep 29, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 32 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes in 1998
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.