Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1998, 2:20 PM CST for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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
- Mar 8, 1998, 2:20 PM CST (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 3:10 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 2:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Greenville, AL | Trees and power lines were blown down just west of Greenville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
393 WFUS1 KMOB 082021 RRA TORMOB ALC013-082110- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 220 PM CST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 310 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA ...BUTLER COUNTY AT 218 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR AT MOBILE INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF BUTLER COUNTY. THE TORNADO WILL MOVE FROM GARLAND NORTHEAST TOWARDS GREENEVILLE,AL BY 245 PM CST. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 11:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 116 min |
| Mar 8, 12:19 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 12:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 64 min |
| Mar 8, 12:59 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington | 117 min |
| Mar 8, 2:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 4:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 5:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 5:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 5:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 4 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 2:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 3:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 6 hr |
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.