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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 13, 1999Coffee County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1999, 3:16 PM CDT for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1999, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1999, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Coffee County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, AL	Coffee County EMA provided a summary of damages: seven residential houses sustained slight to major wind damage, four barns and other neighboring sheds suffered minor to major damage including roof losses, three chicken houses received moderate wind damage, a

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 13, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
200 PM EDT THU MAY 13 1999

IN THE SHORT TERM...SCATTERED CONVECTION IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE
AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. STORM CLUSTER OVER GULF (SOUTH OF
PANAMA CITY) HAS WEAKENED & WILL MOVE E-SE & GENERALLY STAY OFF
SHORE. WITH GRADIENT LEVEL FLOW MORE WESTERLY & STRONGER
TODAY...SEA BREEZE WILL RUN AHEAD OF SHORTWAVE ENERGY FROM NORTHERN
SYSTEM...& NOT BE MUCH OF A FACTOR. BUT SHORTWAVE ENERGY WILL SWING
THROUGH CWA TOWARD EVENING & OVERNIGHT & SHOULD HELP GENERATE
CONVECTION. AS AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...ADDITIONAL DESTABALIZATION
WILL OCCUR...WITH MAIN THREAT OVER CWA OF SOME PULSE STORMS.
PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ARE GENERALLY ABOVE 1.20 INCHES...& SOME
LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED. OVERALL SEVERE POTENTIAL SHOULD
STAY LOW.

MODELS ARE GENERALLY CONSISTENT WITH MOVING SHORTWAVE EAST OF CWA
BY FRI NOON...AS PREFRONTAL TROUGH DRIFTS THROUGH TONIGHT...THEN
WEAK COLD FRONT FRI AM. SHOULD BE SOME SCATTERED CONVECTION...BUT
MOST OF DYNAMICS STAY NORTH. AS WINDS SHIFT TO W-NW...DRYING TREND
SEEN FRIDAY AFTERNOON & INTO WEEKEND. ETAS DEPICTION OF PRECIP
FIELDS ARE HIT & MISS PER SCATTERED AFFECT.

FOR TEMPS...COOLER FAN LOOKS BETTER.

TLH 61 84 58 84 532-
PFN 65 81 62 82 432-
DHN 65 84 60 83 543-
ABY 62 83 60 82 5432
VLD 62 85 61 84 5432

MCT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson	32 min
May 13, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes	33 min
May 13, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early	50 min
May 13, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty	30 min
May 13, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Worth	31 min
May 13, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Turner	31 min
May 13, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Randolph	43 min
May 13, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell	43 min
May 13, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Houston	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1999 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.