Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 93
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 13, 1999, 8:15 PM CST for 9 counties in Alabama; 12 counties in Florida; 16 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 1999, 8:15 PM CST (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 1999, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Covington County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Lee County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Webster County, GA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 8:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 54 min |
| Mar 13, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 30 min |
| Mar 13, 9:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 56 min |
| Mar 13, 9:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 56 min |
| Mar 13, 9:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 49 min |
| Mar 13, 10:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 57 min |
| Mar 13, 10:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 48 min |
| Mar 13, 10:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 54 min |
| Mar 13, 10:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 66 min |
| Mar 13, 11:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 52 min |
| Mar 13, 11:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 39 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Henry, Houston | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 6:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Charlotte, Citrus, Clay and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 14, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Columbia, Effingham, Jenkins and 2 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.