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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 1999, 5:55 PM CST for Limestone County, Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 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, 5:55 PM CST (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1999, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Limestone County, AL, Morgan County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 WFUS1 KBHM 222356 RRA TORBHM ALC083-103-230100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 555 PM CST FRI JAN 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIMESTONE COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA NORTHWESTERN MORGAN COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 553 PM CST... A TORNADO WAS DETECTED...BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...NEAR HILLSBORO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * TORNADO WILL BE MOVING TOWARD THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF ATHENS. ...
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 3 hours 16 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, 5 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, 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, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 60 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 |
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.