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Tornado Warning 185, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 29, 1998Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 1:14 PM EDT for Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
Sep 29, 1998, 1:14 PM EDT (17:14 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 1998, 1:50 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Stewart County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 29, 11:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 147 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1998-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 96 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1998-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 291717 COR
TORBHM
GAC259-291750-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1214 PM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STEWART COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 150 PM EDT (1250 PM CDT)

* AT 113 PM EDT... A TORNADO WAS DETECTED...BY NATIONAL WEATHER
  SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR MOVING NORTH ALONG HIGHWAY 27 OVER SOUTHERN
  DSTEWART COUNTY.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR LUMPKIN AROUND 130 PM.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 29, 12:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBMXQuitman, Stewart6 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.