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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 28, 1998Bacon County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 1998, 1:52 AM EST for Bacon County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
Feb 28, 1998, 1:52 AM EST (06:52 UTC)
Expired
Feb 28, 1998, 2:25 AM EST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Bacon County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 28, 2:05 AM ESTThunderstorm WindAlma, GALarge tress and power lines were blown down.

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 nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 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 00:00Z on 1998-02-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 602 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 00:00Z on 1998-02-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 27, 9:10 PM EST, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 9:10 PM EST, 4 hours 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 28, 3:45 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJAXHamilton6 hr
Feb 28, 4:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXColumbia35 min
Feb 28, 4:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBaker33 min
Feb 28, 9:45 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJAXHamilton6 hr
Feb 28, 1:35 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee30 min
Feb 28, 2:05 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling30 min
Feb 28, 2:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.