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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 5, 1998Bacon County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1998, 4:30 PM EDT for Bacon County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 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
Jun 5, 1998, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1998, 5:35 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Bacon County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1998-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 710 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1998-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
710 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
871 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
3.2

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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 Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXJeff Davis63 min
Jun 5, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.