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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 13, 1999Russell County, Alabama; Chattahoochee County, Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1999, 6:04 PM CDT for Russell County, Alabama; Chattahoochee County, Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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 13, 1999, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1999, 6:55 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Russell County, AL, Chattahoochee County, GA, Stewart County, GA

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 13, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 904 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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

Local storm report, May 13, 12:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1228 PM CDT THU MAY 13 1999

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

1145 AM    FISHER XRDS               AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/13/99   DEKALB                         GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL FELL
                                          NEAR FISHER.  REPORTED BY
                                          EMA

1211 PM    PRICEVILLE                AL   2.5 INCH HAIL
05/13/99   MORGAN                         2.5 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
                                          FELL NEAR PRICEVILLE.
                                          REPORTED BY HUNTSVILLE
                                          TELEVISION STATION

1219 PM    BALLPLAY                  AL   .88 INCH HAIL
05/13/99   ETOWAH                         NICKEL SIZE HAIL FELL IN
                                          BALLPLAY.  REPORTED BY EMA

1219 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
05/13/99   MORGAN                         ONE LARGE TREE BLOWN OVER
                                          IN NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY
                                          NEAR MORGAN CITY. REPORTED
                                          BY SHERIFF

1222 PM                              AL   1 INCH HAIL
05/13/99   ETOWAH                         QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL
                                          ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF
                                          THE COUNTY.  REPORTED BY
                                          EMA

Local storm report, May 13, 12:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1228 PM CDT THU MAY 13 1999

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

1145 AM    FISHER XRDS               AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/13/99   DEKALB                         GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL FELL
                                          NEAR FISHER.  REPORTED BY
                                          EMA

1211 PM    PRICEVILLE                AL   2.5 INCH HAIL
05/13/99   MORGAN                         2.5 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
                                          FELL NEAR PRICEVILLE.
                                          REPORTED BY HUNTSVILLE
                                          TELEVISION STATION

1219 PM    BALLPLAY                  AL   .88 INCH HAIL
05/13/99   ETOWAH                         NICKEL SIZE HAIL FELL IN
                                          BALLPLAY.  REPORTED BY EMA

1219 PM                              AL   WIND DAMAGE
05/13/99   MORGAN                         ONE LARGE TREE BLOWN OVER
                                          IN NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY
                                          NEAR MORGAN CITY. REPORTED
                                          BY SHERIFF

1222 PM                              AL   1 INCH HAIL
05/13/99   ETOWAH                         QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL
                                          ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF
                                          THE COUNTY.  REPORTED BY
                                          EMA

Special weather statement, May 13, 3:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 2:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone, Madison	46 min
May 13, 11:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	35 min
May 13, 11:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	35 min
May 13, 11:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	51 min
May 13, 11:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	49 min
May 13, 11:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison, Marshall	62 min
May 13, 11:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	34 min
May 13, 11:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	66 min
May 13, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	63 min
May 13, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	36 min
May 13, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	48 min
May 13, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga	50 min
May 13, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	40 min
May 13, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	64 min
May 13, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	32 min
May 13, 1:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa	35 min
May 13, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	48 min
May 13, 1:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore, Tallapoosa	32 min
May 13, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	35 min
May 13, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	47 min
May 13, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga	33 min
May 13, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	35 min
May 13, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	34 min
May 13, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	32 min
May 13, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	35 min
May 13, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	49 min
May 13, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	34 min
May 13, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	21 min
May 13, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	32 min
May 13, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	48 min
May 13, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	46 min
May 13, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	46 min
May 13, 2:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	36 min
May 13, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	35 min
May 13, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	64 min
May 13, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	50 min
May 13, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga	36 min
May 13, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	48 min
May 13, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	32 min
May 13, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	33 min
May 13, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	47 min
May 13, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	47 min
May 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	51 min
May 13, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	47 min
May 13, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	51 min
May 13, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Muscogee	62 min
May 13, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Quitman	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1999 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1999 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.