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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 4, 1999Bullock County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1999, 5:30 PM CDT for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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
Jun 4, 1999, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1999, 6:20 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Bullock County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 4, 12:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1999-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1792 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 1999-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1792 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 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

Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 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.
Local storm report, Jun 4, 3:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
323 PM CDT FRI JUN 04 1999

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

0150 PM    ONEONTA                   AL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   BLOUNT

0232 PM    CRANE HILL                AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   CULLMAN

0250 PM                              AL   .88 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   CLEBURNE                       NICKEL SIZED HAIL IN NEW
                                          HOPEWELL.

0307 PM    CLANTON                   AL   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   CHILTON

0310 PM    VALLEY HEAD               AL   1 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   DEKALB

0310 PM    UNION HILL                AL   1 INCH HAIL
06/04/99   CLEBURNE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 1:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson, Madison47 min
Jun 4, 1:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount32 min
Jun 4, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDeKalb32 min
Jun 4, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSt. Clair31 min
Jun 4, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount34 min
Jun 4, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCullman, Winston34 min
Jun 4, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCleburne33 min
Jun 4, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton36 min
Jun 4, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDeKalb46 min
Jun 4, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRandolph50 min
Jun 4, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson34 min
Jun 4, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCleburne20 min
Jun 4, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCalhoun, St. Clair48 min
Jun 4, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton51 min
Jun 4, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXClay, Talladega49 min
Jun 4, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCleburne46 min
Jun 4, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRandolph47 min
Jun 4, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes50 min
Jun 4, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCalhoun48 min
Jun 4, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXClay48 min
Jun 4, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers47 min
Jun 4, 4:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXCalhoun, Cleburne2 hr
Jun 4, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton36 min
Jun 4, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee51 min
Jun 4, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMacon, Russell50 min
Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton, Coosa51 min
Jun 4, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes51 min
Jun 4, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCoosa, Elmore49 min
Jun 4, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLowndes65 min
Jun 4, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas64 min
Jun 4, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChattahoochee, Muscogee51 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.