Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1998, 3:56 PM EST for Appling County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 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
- Mar 8, 1998, 3:56 PM EST (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 4:55 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Appling County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 4:06 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Surrency, GA | Large trees 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
551 WFUS1 KJAX 082057 RRA TORJAX GAC001-082155- BULLETIN TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 356 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 455 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA ...APPLING AT 352 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOMESVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO FROM 352 PM EST TO 455 PM EST ARE... HOMESVILLE BY 400 PM EST... PINE GROVE BY 405 PM EST... BAXLEY BY 405 PM EST. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT... DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. PLEASE TUNE TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS... YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET... OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. K. KUYPER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 10:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 10:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 10:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 36 min |
| Mar 8, 11:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 2:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 2:57 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 58 min |
| Mar 8, 6:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch | 62 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.