Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 1998, 6:33 AM EDT for Liberty County, Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 9, 1998, 6:33 AM EDT (10:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1998, 7:05 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 6:35 AM EDT | Tornado F2 | Donald, GA | Tornado touched down in the Rye Patch Community where 3 people died (all were in mobile homes).Ten mobile homes were destroyed and two others were damaged along with a roof blown off a block house. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off above the ground. |
| Apr 9, 6:45 AM EDT | Tornado F2 | Hinesville, GA | F2 tornado moved from Long County into Liberty County, which encompasses much of Fort Stewart Army Base. One soldier was killed while in an administrative building and seven others were injured. Seven buildings were destroyed while another fifty-five(55) suffe |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 2:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCHS 091033 RRA TORCHS GAC179-183-091105- BULLETIN...EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 633 AM EDT THU APR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA LONG COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 705 AM EDT * AT 630 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO THE TOWN OF DONALD... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... ACROSS FORT STEWART AND ROUTE 119 BETWEEN 640 AND 650 AM... PASSING TO THE WEST OF HINESVILLE. IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING! AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER Y OUR HEAD. ML
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 3:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Long | 49 min |
| Apr 9, 5:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham | 34 min |
| Apr 9, 6:19 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long, Tattnall | 31 min |
| Apr 9, 6:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 34 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.