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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1999, 1:53 PM CDT for DeKalb 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
- Jun 2, 1999, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1999, 2:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County DeKalb County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 021855 RRA TORBHM ALC049-021925- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 153 PM CDT WED JUN 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DEKALB COUNTY... IN NORTHERN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 225 PM CDT. * AT 151 PM CDT... COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THE RAINSVILLE AREA. WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF THE RAINSVILLE AREA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE VALLEY HEAD...MENTONE...AND FORT PAYNE AREAS. THIS UPGRADES THE PREVIOUS WARNING. 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, 4 hours 39 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, 4 hours 39 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, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 33 min |
| 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, 1:56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.