Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 45, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 7:25 AM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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
- Apr 15, 1999, 7:25 AM CDT (12:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 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 12:28 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 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, 6:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 630 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 151226 RRA TORBHM ALC005-151300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 725 AM CDT THU APR 15 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BARBOUR COUNTY... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 800 AM CDT. * AT 725 AM CDT... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF EUFAULA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS IS AN UPGRADE OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.