Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1999, 1:01 AM CST for Elmore County, Lowndes County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 min. 4 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
- Mar 3, 1999, 1:01 AM CST (07:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1999, 1:50 AM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elmore County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Montgomery County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 1:07 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Montgomery, AL | Several trees were knocked down, and a tin roof was blown off one house in Montgomery. |
| Mar 3, 1:11 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Hayneville, AL | Trees and power lines were knocked down and a few outbuildings were destroyed in the Beechwood Community off CR 21. |
| Mar 3, 1:11 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 64 | Montgomery, AL | Maxwell Air Force Base recorded a wind gust of 74 miles an hour. |
| Mar 3, 1:11 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Millbrook, AL | Strong thunderstorm wind downed numerous trees along CR2 just west of the intersection with SR 143. At that intersection, a number of very large trees were uprooted falling on several mobile homes. A 23-year-old man was killed when one of the trees fell on h |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 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.
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
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 8:26 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
ALZ004>010-013>018-020-024>026-030300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 826 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...LAWRENCE... LIMESTONE... MADISON... MORGAN... MARSHALL... JACKSON ...DEKALB... FAYETTE... WINSTON... WALKER... CULLMAN... BLOUNT ...ETOWAH... CHEROKEE... JEFFERSON... SHELBY... ST. CLAIR THE AIRMASS OVER THIS REGION HAS BECOME MORE STABLE THIS EVENING. ONLY GENERAL SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT.
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 8:26 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
ALZ004>010-013>018-020-024>026-030300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 826 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...LAWRENCE... LIMESTONE... MADISON... MORGAN... MARSHALL... JACKSON ...DEKALB... FAYETTE... WINSTON... WALKER... CULLMAN... BLOUNT ...ETOWAH... CHEROKEE... JEFFERSON... SHELBY... ST. CLAIR THE AIRMASS OVER THIS REGION HAS BECOME MORE STABLE THIS EVENING. ONLY GENERAL SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT.
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 9:05 PM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes before
ALZ001>003-011-012-022-023-030340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 905 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...LAUDERDALE... COLBERT... FRANKLIN... MARION... LAMAR... PICKENS ...TUSCALOOSA
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 9:05 PM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes before
ALZ001>003-011-012-022-023-030340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 905 PM CST TUE MAR 2 1999 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...LAUDERDALE... COLBERT... FRANKLIN... MARION... LAMAR... PICKENS ...TUSCALOOSA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 7:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 49 min |
| Mar 2, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 46 min |
| Mar 2, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 8:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 17 min |
| Mar 2, 9:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 12:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Dallas | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 12:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 1:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 1:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 1:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon, Tallapoosa | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 1:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 1:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 45 min |
| Mar 3, 1:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 1:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne, Randolph | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 1:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 2:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 2:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 2:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 2:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 2:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 45 min |
| Mar 3, 3:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 18 min |
| Mar 3, 2:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Quitman, Stewart | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.