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Tornado Watch 95

March 14, 199939 counties in Florida

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 14, 1999, 7:30 AM EST for 39 counties in Florida. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 14, 1999, 7:30 AM EST (12:30 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 1999, 1:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties

Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Charlotte County, FL, Citrus County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Glades County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hendry County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Lake County, FL, Lee County, FL, Levy County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Marion County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Sarasota County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Sumter County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Volusia County, FL

Warnings issued inside it

7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 10:59 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWHernando41 min
Mar 14, 11:23 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBWCitrus47 min
Mar 14, 11:29 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWHernando46 min
Mar 14, 11:39 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWPasco46 min
Mar 14, 11:46 AM ESTTornado WarningTBWCitrus49 min
Mar 14, 12:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXMarion57 min
Mar 14, 12:52 PM ESTTornado WarningTBWHillsborough, Pasco33 min

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 44 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1999-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 68 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1999-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 415 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
415 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
506 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 9:15 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson and 6 more6 hr
Mar 14, 3:00 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie and 15 more5 hr
Mar 14, 1:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBrevard, Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry and 14 more5 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.