Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 3:14 AM CDT for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 15, 1999, 3:14 AM CDT (08:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dallas County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 3:17 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Minter, AL | Several trees were knocked down in southern Dallas County near Minter. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 2269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 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 150814 RRA TORBHM ALC047-150845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 314 AM CDT THU APR 15 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN DALLAS COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 345 AM CDT. * AT 312 AM CDT... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO NEAR SHEAPARDVILLE IN SOUTHEAST DALLAS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. GO TO THE BAfSEMENT...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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 12:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 1:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marengo | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 2:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 3:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 3:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Apr 15, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 47 min |
| Apr 15, 4:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Pike | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 5:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Pike | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 5:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 6:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 7:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 8:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 11:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 33 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.