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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 3, 1999Quitman County, Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1999, 4:04 AM EST for Quitman County, Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 61 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: Mar 3, 1999, 4:04 AM EST (09:04 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 1999, 5:05 AM EST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Quitman County, GA, Stewart County, GA

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 3, 2:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Mar 2, 10:05 PM EST, 5 hours 59 minutes before

ALZ001>003-011-012-022-023-030340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
905 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...

IN ALABAMA

   ...LAUDERDALE... COLBERT... FRANKLIN... MARION... LAMAR... PICKENS
   ...TUSCALOOSA

Special weather statement, Mar 2, 10:05 PM EST, 5 hours 59 minutes before

ALZ001>003-011-012-022-023-030340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
905 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...

IN ALABAMA

   ...LAUDERDALE... COLBERT... FRANKLIN... MARION... LAMAR... PICKENS
   ...TUSCALOOSA

Local storm report, Mar 3, 2:39 AM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
139 AM CST WED MAR 03 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0111 AM    MONTGOMERY                AL   74 MPH TSTM GUST
03/03/99   MONTGOMERY                     64 KT GUST AT MAXWELL AFB

0115 AM    BEECHWOOD                 AL   WIND DAMAGE
03/03/99   LOWNDES                        TREES AND POWERLINES
                                          DOWN...OUTBUILDINGS
                                          DESTROYED.  TIME
                                          ESTIMATED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 8:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	49 min
Mar 2, 8:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	46 min
Mar 2, 9:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	30 min
Mar 2, 9:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb	60 min
Mar 2, 9:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	17 min
Mar 2, 10:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	48 min
Mar 3, 1:33 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton, Dallas	47 min
Mar 3, 1:49 AM EST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga	31 min
Mar 3, 2:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery	49 min
Mar 3, 2:13 AM EST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Talladega	47 min
Mar 3, 2:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	31 min
Mar 3, 2:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon, Tallapoosa	48 min
Mar 3, 2:37 AM EST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Montgomery	33 min
Mar 3, 2:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Lee	45 min
Mar 3, 2:46 AM EST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon	49 min
Mar 3, 2:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne, Randolph	33 min
Mar 3, 2:59 AM EST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pike	31 min
Mar 3, 3:03 AM EST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	47 min
Mar 3, 3:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	31 min
Mar 3, 3:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	49 min
Mar 3, 3:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Lee	31 min
Mar 3, 3:45 AM EST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	45 min
Mar 3, 4:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	18 min
Mar 3, 3:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	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.