Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 36
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 23, 1999, 1:00 AM CST for 26 counties in Alabama; 9 counties in Florida; 23 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 23, 1999, 1:00 AM CST (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 1999, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Early County, GA, Harris County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Pike County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 1:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 69 min |
| Jan 23, 2:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Jan 23, 3:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 31 min |
| Jan 23, 3:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 66 min |
| Jan 23, 4:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 56 min |
| Jan 23, 4:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 44 min |
| Jan 23, 4:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 35 min |
| Jan 23, 5:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry, Houston | 49 min |
| Jan 23, 5:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 49 min |
| Jan 23, 5:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Washington | 60 min |
| Jan 23, 6:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 644 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 12.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 5 hr |
| Jan 23, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alachua, Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Flagler and 23 more | 6 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.