Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 18
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 22, 1998, 12:00 PM CST for Geneva County, Alabama; 15 counties in Florida; Decatur County, Grady County, Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 1998, 12:00 PM CST (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 1998, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Geneva County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA, Seminole County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 12:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 48 min |
| Jan 22, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 59 min |
| Jan 22, 2:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 64 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 449 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Florida, 1998Tornado Watches in Georgia, 1998Tornado Watches in Alabama, 1998Every tornado watch 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.