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Tornado Watch 19

January 10, 200015 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Florida; 34 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 10, 2000, 1:00 AM CST for 15 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Florida; 34 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 10, 2000, 1:00 AM CST (07:00 UTC)
Expired: Jan 10, 2000, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 59 counties

Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lee County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Turner County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 10, 1:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	43 min
Jan 10, 2:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	49 min
Jan 10, 2:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	40 min
Jan 10, 2:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	62 min
Jan 10, 2:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour, Lee, Russell	61 min
Jan 10, 3:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry	37 min
Jan 10, 4:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Houston	28 min

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

870 
WWUS9 KMKC 100655
SEL9  

SEL9  
MKC WW 100655
ALZ000-FLZ000-GAZ000-CWZ000-101200-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 19
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1255 AM CST MON JAN 10 2000

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   SOUTHEAST ALABAMA                            
   THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE                           
   SOUTHERN GEORGIA                            
   COASTAL WATERS                     

EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY MORNING FROM 100 AM UNTIL 600 AM CST.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO
70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 115 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA FLORIDA TO 60 MILES
NORTH NORTHEAST OF ALBANY GEORGIA.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. 
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...  CONTINUE...WW 16...WW 17...WW 18...

DISCUSSION...THREAT FOR SUPERCELLS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES IN ZONE
OF INCREASING UNIDIRECTIONAL SHEAR AHEAD OF EXISTING STORMS OVER
ERN AL.  SHEAR SHOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN WATCH AREA AS REGION
IS GLANCED BY STRONG SHORTWAVE TROUGH EJECTING NE ACROSS THE TN
VALLEY.   

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450. 
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24045.


...CORFIDI

321,0815 300,0851 300,0890 321,0854

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 10:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 24 more	6 hr
Jan 9, 10:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cullman, DeKalb and 20 more	6 hr
Jan 10, 12:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll and 53 more	5 hr
Jan 10, 5:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 55 more	5 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.