Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 8
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 2, 1999, 11:00 PM EST for 6 counties in Georgia; 14 counties in North Carolina; 17 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 1999, 11:00 PM EST (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 1999, 5:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Screven County, GA, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Marion County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 3:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 44 min |
| Jan 3, 3:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 46 min |
| Jan 3, 3:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 1196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 528 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, 9:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 19 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 1999Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 1999Tornado Watches in Georgia, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.