Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 1999, 11:16 AM CST for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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
- Jan 2, 1999, 11:16 AM CST (17:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 1999, 11:45 AM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Santa Rosa County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 11:40 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Harold, FL | Law Enforcement saw a tornado briefly touch down near Deaton Bridge in the Blackwater River State Park. No damage was found. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 549 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KMOB 021717 RRA TORMOB FLC113-021745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1116 AM CST SAT JAN 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 1145 AM CST * AT 1116 AM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 14 MILES EAST OF MILTON OR 1 MILE EAST OF FLORIDALE... MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO WILL BE MAINLY OVER RURAL AREAS. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 10:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 43 min |
| Jan 2, 11:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 26 min |
| Jan 2, 11:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 63 min |
| Jan 2, 11:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 30 min |
| Jan 2, 11:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 36 min |
| Jan 2, 12:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 61 min |
| Jan 2, 12:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 57 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.