Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 7:10 PM CST for St. Clair County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 min. 3 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
- Feb 27, 1999, 7:10 PM CST (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1999, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County St. Clair County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 7:26 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Branchville, AL | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| Feb 27, 7:29 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Whitney, AL | Wind damage was reported on Chandler Mountain. Minor damage occurred to the roof of a home, a storage building, and fencing around the home. |
| Feb 27, 7:38 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Ashville, AL | Significant straight line wind damage occurred in NE St. Clair County. The damage length was 3 miles and the average damage width was 1/4 mile. The damage paralleled CR 24 starting near Lickskillet Road and ended in the Lakeview Canyon Road area. The Oldham Ch |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 412 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 393 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 65 min |
| Feb 27, 6:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Lawrence | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 6:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 6:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Feb 27, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 19 min |
| Feb 27, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Shelby | 65 min |
| Feb 27, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 50 min |
| Feb 27, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 65 min |
| Feb 27, 7:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 63 min |
| Feb 27, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, DeKalb | 47 min |
| Feb 27, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore | 62 min |
| Feb 27, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne | 62 min |
| Feb 27, 8:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph, Tallapoosa | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 63 min |
| Feb 27, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Macon | 65 min |
| Feb 27, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 20 min |
| Feb 27, 9:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 50 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.