Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 5:55 AM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 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, 5:55 AM CDT (10:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 6:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 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 10:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 6:40 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Eufaula, AL | Several trees were knocked down in northern Barbour County. The most concentrated damage was near Lugo. |
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, 10.9 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
- 2381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 463 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 151055 RRA TORBHM ALC005-151155- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 555 AM CDT THU APR 15 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BARBOUR COUNTY... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 655 AM CDT. * AT 552 AM CDT... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF MOUNT ANDREW MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH. OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY FROM PIKE COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER 6 AM.
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, Apr 15, 1:23 AM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
ALZ001>003-150640- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 123 AM CDT THU APR 15 1999 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN ALABAMA ...LAUDERDALE... COLBERT... FRANKLIN THE STRONGER STORMS HAVE MOVED TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF THE AREA. ONLY SOME MODERATE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER THESE COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
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, 3:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 31 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.