Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 66, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1999, 12:52 PM CDT for Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 2, 1999, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1999, 1:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Albertville, AL | Several trees were reported down in Albertville. Additional scattered reports were received of tree limbs down and several short power outages. A funnel cloud was reported over Guntersville Lake. |
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 560 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 021755 RRA TORBHM ALC095-021825- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1252 PM CDT WED JUN 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARSHALL COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 125 PM CDT. * AT 1251 PM CDT... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO...JUST EAST OF ARAB IN MARSHALL COUNTY. THE STORM WAS EAST NORTHEAS T 20 TO 25 MPH. * THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE GUNTERSVILLE...AND ALBERTVILLE 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, Jun 2, 9:14 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-030215- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 914 AM CDT WED JUN 2 1999 A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS...BUT SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. 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.ACES.EDU/NWS/
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 9:14 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
ALZ001>050-GAZ089-090-102-120-030215- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH/CENTRAL AL AND WEST CENTRAL GA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 914 AM CDT WED JUN 2 1999 A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS...BUT SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. 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.ACES.EDU/NWS/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 18 min |
| Jun 2, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 3:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 49 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.