Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 1999, 12:49 AM CST for Autauga County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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
- Mar 3, 1999, 12:49 AM CST (06:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1999, 1:20 AM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Autauga County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 1:04 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Prattville, AL | Just to the east of State Road (SR) 14 on the southside of Prattville, numerous large trees were uprooted in a residential area. |
| Mar 3, 1:05 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Prattville, AL | A shopping center suffered serious damage when strong wind broke large display windows and seriously damaged the roof. A number of businesses were affected with some of the worst damage at a Hibbetts Sporting Store. Just east of the Premiere Place shopping c |
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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KBHM 030648 RRA TORBHM ALC001-030720- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1249 AM CST WED MAR 3 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... AUTAUGA COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 120 AM CST. * AT 1247 AM CST... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO...JUST NORTH OF MULBERRY IN SOUTHWEST AUTAUGA COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH...AND WILL AFFECT THE AUTAUGAVILLE...INDEPENDENCE AND PRATTVILLE AREAS BETWEEN 1250 AM AND 120 AM. THIS IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS ALREADY IN EFFECT FOR AUTAUGA COUNTY. GO TO THE BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
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
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 8:26 PM CST, 4 hours 23 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 23 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 44 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 44 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, 1:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 49 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 |
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.