Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1999, 8:50 PM CST for Chambers County, Lee County, Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 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
- Feb 27, 1999, 8:50 PM CST (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 1999, 9:55 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chambers County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 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, 9:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lafayette, AL | Trees were downed along US 431 in Chambers County. |
| Feb 27, 9:45 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Opelika, AL | Dime sized hail was reported near Opelika. |
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, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 50 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, 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.