Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 2, 1999, 9:00 AM CST for 14 counties in Alabama; 7 counties in Florida; 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 1999, 9:00 AM CST (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 1999, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Pike County, AL, Washington County, AL, Bay County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 9:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 55 min |
| Jan 2, 9:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 33 min |
| Jan 2, 9:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 41 min |
| Jan 2, 9:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 60 min |
| Jan 2, 9:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 63 min |
| Jan 2, 10:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 65 min |
| Jan 2, 10:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 43 min |
| Jan 2, 10:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 53 min |
| Jan 2, 10:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 36 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 | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 63 min |
| Jan 2, 11:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 40 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, 12:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 48 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 |
| Jan 2, 1:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 42 min |
| Jan 2, 1:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 50 min |
| Jan 2, 1:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 55 min |
| Jan 2, 2:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Washington | 60 min |
| Jan 2, 2:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 59 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
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 2, 3:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mobile | 6 hr |
| Jan 2, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Jan 1, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Issaquena, Sharkey | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Alabama, 1999Tornado Watches in Florida, 1999Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 1999Every tornado watch in 1999
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.