Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 1999, 5:49 AM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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
- Mar 9, 1999, 5:49 AM CST (11:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1999, 6:15 AM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 5:55 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, 11.8 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 091149 RRA TORMOB ALC003-091215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 549 AM CST TUE MAR 9 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 615 AM CST * AT 548 AM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FOLEY OR 3 MILES WEST OF CASWELL... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR- JOSEPHINE BY 550 AM CST CASWELL BY 550 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 AWAYV 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, 4:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 80 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.