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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Mobile, AL

March 13, 1999Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1999, 8:51 PM CST for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 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: Mar 13, 1999, 8:51 PM CST (02:51 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 1999, 9:45 PM CST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Escambia County, AL

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 13, 8:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 231 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 692 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 821 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 140251 RRA
TORMOB
ALC053-140345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
851 PM CST SAT MAR 13 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 945 PM CST

* AT 849 PM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A TORNADO WAS LOCATED
  NEAR MCCULLOUGH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR-
  HUXFORD BY 855 PM 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 13, 6:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	60 min
Mar 13, 6:58 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	3 hr
Mar 13, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	71 min
Mar 13, 7:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	66 min
Mar 13, 7:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	74 min
Mar 13, 8:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	2 hr
Mar 13, 8:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington	69 min
Mar 13, 8:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	63 min
Mar 13, 9:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	56 min
Mar 13, 9:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	49 min
Mar 13, 9:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh	64 min
Mar 13, 9:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	78 min
Mar 13, 11:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	39 min

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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.