Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1999, 2:45 PM CST for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 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
- Jan 22, 1999, 2:45 PM CST (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 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 222046 RRA SVRBHM ALC057-222145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 245 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 345 PM CST * AT 243 PM CST... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN...BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...MOVING INTO WESTERN AREAS OF FAYETTE COUNTY * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...BELK AND FAYETTE BETWEEN 3:00 AND 3:30 PM. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN PICKENS COUNTY. THIS LARGE STORM WILL IMPACT A LARGE PART OF FAYETTE COUNTY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMEMBER... A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS... AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. &
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, Jan 22, 2:39 PM CST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
339 PM CDT FRI JAN 22 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM AL .88 INCH HAIL
01/22/99 PICKENS NICKEL SIZED HAIL IN
MCSHAN COMMUNITY...5 MILES
SE OF ETHELSVILLEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 1:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 2:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 61 min |
| Jan 22, 2:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 63 min |
| Jan 22, 2:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 2:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin, Marion | 65 min |
| Jan 22, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 3:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 61 min |
| Jan 22, 3:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 4:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 4:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 64 min |
| Jan 22, 4:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Winston | 3 hr |
| Jan 22, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 45 min |
| Jan 22, 4:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 4:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 66 min |
| Jan 22, 4:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 4:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marion, Walker | 36 min |
| Jan 22, 4:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 49 min |
| Jan 22, 4:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 5:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone | 32 min |
| Jan 22, 5:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 62 min |
| Jan 22, 5:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 65 min |
| Jan 22, 5:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 35 min |
| Jan 22, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 62 min |
| Jan 22, 5:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 5:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.