Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1999, 2:37 PM CDT for Cleburne County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 4, 1999, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1999, 3:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cleburne County, AL
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Hopewell, AL | Nickel size hail was reported near Hopewell east of Heflin. |
| Jun 4, 3:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Union Hill, AL | Quarter size hail fell near Union Hill about one mile north northeast of Hightower. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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, Jun 4, 8:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-0400400 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 850 AM CDT FRI JUN 4 1999 A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL FAVOR THE FORMATION OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL BUT NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL PROBABLY WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. FOR 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.ACES.EDU/NWS/
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 8:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-0400400 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 850 AM CDT FRI JUN 4 1999 A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL FAVOR THE FORMATION OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL BUT NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL PROBABLY WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. FOR 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.ACES.EDU/NWS/
Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:53 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
153 PM CDT FRI JUN 04 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0141 PM 0 CLEVELAND AL 1 INCH HAIL
06/04/99 BLOUNT REPORT FROM THE EMA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 20 min |
| Jun 4, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Talladega | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 4:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon, Russell | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Coosa | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.