Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 94
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 14, 1999, 2:00 AM CST for Barbour County, Henry County, Houston County, Alabama; 21 counties in Florida; 43 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 1999, 2:00 AM CST (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 1999, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 67 counties
Barbour County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie 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, 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, Calhoun 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, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 6:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 6:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Hamilton | 31 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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 13, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 3 more | 6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.