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Tornado Warning 87, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1998, 2:51 PM CDT for Colbert County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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
- May 6, 1998, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1998, 3:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colbert 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1243 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 061951 RRA TORBHM ALC033-062040- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 251 PM CDT WED MAY 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLBERT COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 340 PM CDT * AT 251 PM CDT...POSSIBLE TORNADOS WERE DETECTED...BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WITHIN THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST COLBERT COUNTY NEAR MYNOT AND JUST WEST OF LITTLEVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL EFFECT MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN COLBERT COUNTY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 48 min |
| May 6, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert | 51 min |
| May 6, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 34 min |
| May 6, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 34 min |
| May 6, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 31 min |
| May 6, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 35 min |
| May 6, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 51 min |
| May 6, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 65 min |
| May 6, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 47 min |
| May 6, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 60 min |
| May 6, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion, Winston | 51 min |
| May 6, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 48 min |
| May 6, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 48 min |
| May 6, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 47 min |
| May 6, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 62 min |
| May 6, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 33 min |
| May 6, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 50 min |
| May 6, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 46 min |
| May 6, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| May 6, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 63 min |
| May 6, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 47 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.