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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at May 7, 1999, 1:08 PM CDT for Autauga County, Elmore County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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
- May 7, 1999, 1:08 PM CDT (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1999, 1:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Autauga County, AL, Elmore County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 1200 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 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 071808 RRA TORBHM ALC001-051-071840- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 108 PM CDT FRI MAY 7 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN AUTAUGA COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... ELMORE COUNTY... IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 140 PM CDT. * AT 106 PM CDT... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF PRATTVILLE. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED, THAT A TORNADO IS LIKELY ASSOCIATED WITH IT. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE DEATSVILLE...AND HOLTVILLE AREAS. 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
Special weather statement, May 7, 7:17 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
ALZ060-065>069-071235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 717 AM CDT FRI MAY 7 1999 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 226: COVINGTON...COFFEE....DALE...HENRY...GENEVA AND HOUSTON.
Special weather statement, May 7, 7:17 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
ALZ060-065>069-071235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 717 AM CDT FRI MAY 7 1999 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 226: COVINGTON...COFFEE....DALE...HENRY...GENEVA AND HOUSTON.
Special weather statement, May 7, 10:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-080300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1009 AM CDT FRI MAY 7 1999 THE WEAK FRONT ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE WILL START TO MOVE EASTWARD TODAY AND ALLOW MOST OF THE RAIN TO GO WITH IT. OVER THE REST OF STATE THERE IS ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM TODAY AND NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... SEE PRODUCT BHMSPSMOB. FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... LOOK AT MIASPSTLH. FOR MORE WEATHER INFORMATION VISIT OUR INTERNET SITE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT HTTP://WWW.ACESAG.AUBURN.EDU/DEPARTMENT/NWS/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 1:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 32 min |
| May 7, 1:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 32 min |
| May 7, 1:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 36 min |
| May 7, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 50 min |
| May 7, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 32 min |
| May 7, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 49 min |
| May 7, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 35 min |
| May 7, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 31 min |
| May 7, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 32 min |
| May 7, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 32 min |
| May 7, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 31 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 1999Every tornado warning in 1999Tornadoes in 1999
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.