Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 1998, 3:53 AM EDT for Jeff Davis County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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
- Apr 9, 1998, 3:53 AM EDT (07:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1998, 4:40 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jeff Davis County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 4:10 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazelhurst, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 2:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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.
054 WFUS1 KJAX 090754 RRA TORJAX GAC161-090840- BULLETIN TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 353 AM EDT THU APR 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 440 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA ...JEFF DAVIS AT 351 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF HAZLEHURST MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO FROM 351 AM EDT TO 440 AM EDT ARE... HAZLEHURST BY 355 AM EDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO... THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE... SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS... PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 2:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 63 min |
| Apr 9, 3:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 60 min |
| Apr 9, 4:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 5:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 61 min |
| Apr 9, 5:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 49 min |
| Apr 9, 5:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling | 66 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.