Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1999, 9:42 PM CST for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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 13, 1999, 9:42 PM CST (03:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1999, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barbour County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 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 13, 9:50 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Blue Spgs, AL | Numerous trees were knocked down around Blue Springs. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 2123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 537 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 845 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 140345 COR TORBHM ALC005-140415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 942 PM CST SAT MAR 13 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BARBOUR COUNTY... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 1015 PM CST. * AT 939 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO...NEAR ARITON MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT SOUTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...DOSTER...BLUE SPRINGS AND TEXASVILLE. THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER. GO TO THE BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Pike | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 9:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Mar 13, 10:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 31 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.