Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1999, 10:14 PM CST for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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 13, 1999, 10:14 PM CST (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1999, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 31 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 04:18 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 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.
999 WFUS1 KBHM 140415 RRA TORBHM ALC005-140445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1014 PM CST SAT MAR 13 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BARBOUR COUNTY... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 1045 PM CST. * AT 1015 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO...NEAR TEXASVILLE IN SOUTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MPH. * THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE BAKERHILL... EUFAULA...AND AREAS NEAR LAKE EUFAULA. THIS EXTENDS THE WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR THIS 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
Local storm report, Mar 13, 10:06 PM CST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1006 PM CST SAT MAR 13 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1005 PM AL WIND DAMAGE
03/13/99 BARBOUR NUMEROUS TREES DOWNED IN
THE BLUE SPRINGS AREA OF
SOUTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY.Local storm report, Mar 13, 10:06 PM CST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
1006 PM CST SAT MAR 13 1999
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1005 PM AL WIND DAMAGE
03/13/99 BARBOUR NUMEROUS TREES DOWNED IN
THE BLUE SPRINGS AREA OF
SOUTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY.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, 9:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 33 min |
| Mar 13, 9:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 34 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.