Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 1999, 2:01 PM CST for Barbour County, Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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
- Jan 2, 1999, 2:01 PM CST (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 1999, 2:50 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 2:04 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Clio, AL | Dime size hail reported near the city of Clio. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 573 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 678 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WUUS1 KBHM 022002 RRA SVRBHM ALC005-011-022050- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 201 PM CST SAT JAN 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARBOUR COUNTY... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA BULLOCK COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 250 PM CST * AT 159 PM CST... A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN...BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...FROM THE FITZPATRICK AREA...TO THE CLIO AREA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MOST LOCATIONS ACROSS THE WARNED COUNTIES. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Jan 2, 9:10 AM CST, 4 hours 51 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-030310- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 910 AM CST SAT JAN 2 1999 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTH ALABAMA UNTIL 3 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN ALABAMA THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE EAST ACROSS THE STATE TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTH ALABAMA. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER TODAY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 1:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 50 min |
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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.