Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 1999, 1:13 AM CST for Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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
- Mar 3, 1999, 1:13 AM CST (07:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1999, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Talladega County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 030712 RRA TORBHM ALC121-030800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 113 AM CST WED MAR 3 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN TALLADEGA COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 200 AM CST. * AT 112 AM CST... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO JUST SOUTHEAST OF TALLADEGA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF TALLADEGA COUNTY... INCLUDING THE MUNFORD AREA. 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 47 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 47 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, 4 hours 8 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, 4 hours 8 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, 1:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.