Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 1999, 11:54 AM CST for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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, 11:54 AM CST (17:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 1999, 12:30 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Okaloosa County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 12:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Escambia Farms, FL | High winds produced damage to buildings. |
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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 393 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KMOB 021755 RRA TORMOB FLC091-021830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1154 AM CST SAT JAN 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 1230 PM CST * AT 1153 AM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF CRESTVIEW OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF ESCAMBIA FARMS... MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR- ESCAMBIA FARMS BY NOON CST GOOD HOPE BY 1205 PM CST IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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, 11:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 29 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, 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.