Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 6
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 2, 1999, 2:15 PM CST for Barbour County, Henry County, Houston County, Alabama; 24 counties in Florida; 51 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 1999, 2:15 PM CST (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 1999, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 78 counties
Barbour County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Duval County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 60 min |
| Jan 2, 3:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 63 min |
| Jan 2, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Pierce | 48 min |
| Jan 2, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Wayne | 47 min |
| Jan 2, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Seminole | 30 min |
| Jan 2, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Miller | 61 min |
| Jan 2, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bradford | 35 min |
| Jan 2, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton | 46 min |
| Jan 2, 4:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Pierce | 32 min |
| Jan 2, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley | 65 min |
| Jan 2, 4:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 47 min |
| Jan 2, 4:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Nassau | 18 min |
| Jan 2, 4:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 61 min |
| Jan 2, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 60 min |
| Jan 2, 4:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval | 46 min |
| Jan 2, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Nassau | 60 min |
| Jan 2, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn | 45 min |
| Jan 2, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Hamilton | 60 min |
| Jan 2, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 64 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
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, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 8 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 1999Tornado Watches in Florida, 1999Tornado Watches in Alabama, 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.