Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1999, 4:25 AM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 80 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 9, 1999, 4:25 AM CST (10:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1999, 5:45 AM CST
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 5:10 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Elsanor, AL | High winds destroyed an older mobile home along County Road 87. Five people were in the home. One person suffered minor injuries when the home was ripped apart. The roof and three sides of the trailer were ripped off . Other minor damage with trees down an |
| Mar 9, 5:55 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Gulf Shrs, AL | High winds flipped seven trailers and damaged nine others at Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores. Most of the trailers were owned by people "wintering" over at the state park. No one was injured |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 091025 RRA TORMOB ALC003-091145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 425 AM CST TUE MAR 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 545 AM CST * AT 423 AM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A TORNADO WAS LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF FOLEY... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR- PERDIDO BEACH BY 440 AM CST LILLIAN BY 445 AM CST IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 12:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 63 min |
| Mar 9, 2:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 57 min |
| Mar 9, 3:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 58 min |
| Mar 9, 3:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 71 min |
| Mar 9, 5:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 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.