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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 9, 1999Geneva County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1999, 4:09 AM CST for Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 1999, 4:09 AM CST (10:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 1999, 5:10 AM CST
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Geneva County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1999-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1999-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 3:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWalton30 min
Mar 9, 4:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWalton45 min
Mar 9, 5:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWashington45 min
Mar 9, 9:13 AM CSTTornado WarningTAEGulf62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.