Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1999, 8:09 PM CST for Lawrence County, Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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, 8:09 PM CST (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 8:55 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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.
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, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 644 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 12.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WUUS1 KBHM 230210 RRA SVRBHM ALC079-083-230255- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 809 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAWRENCE COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA LIMESTONE COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 855 PM CST * AT 807 PM CST... A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING IN TO WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY AND WILL EVENTUALLY MOVE INTO LIMESTONE COUNTY. ONE INCH HAIL FELL NEAR MUSCLE SHOALS FROM THIS SAME LINE OF STORMS. 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. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, 5 hours 30 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 ETHELSVILLELocal storm report, Jan 22, 5:50 PM CST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
550 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM AL TORNADO
01/22/99 WINSTON TOUCHDOWN NEAR MOUNT
CARMEL COMMUNITY...ABOUT 4
MILE WNW DOUBLE SPRINGS.
CHURCH ROOF BLOWN OFF.
TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. MOBILE HOME BLOWN
OVER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Jan 22, 6:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 63 min |
| Jan 22, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 64 min |
| Jan 22, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 64 min |
| Jan 22, 7:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 7:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 7:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Franklin, Winston | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 65 min |
| Jan 22, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Marion | 32 min |
| Jan 22, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 34 min |
| Jan 22, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 35 min |
| Jan 22, 9:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Limestone | 4 hr |
| Jan 22, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 47 min |
| Jan 22, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 34 min |
| Jan 22, 10:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 35 min |
| Jan 22, 11:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Jan 22, 11:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 4 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone | 117 min |
| Jan 23, 1:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Winston | 117 min |
| Jan 23, 2:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Jan 23, 3:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.