Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 1998, 10:27 PM EST for Lafayette County, Taylor County, Florida. 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 16, 1998, 10:27 PM EST (03:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1998, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lafayette County, FL, Taylor County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 10:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayo, FL | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and a transformer was struck by lightning. Power outages reported countywide. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 6:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 538 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 16, 8:44 PM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 8:44 PM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 844 PM EST MON FEB 16 1998 SHOWERS AND TSTMS TO CONT ACROSS CWA THRU NITE. STRONGEST STORMS HAVE REMAINED OFFSHORE UNTIL RECENTLY AS LARGE HAIL PRODUCING STORMS HAVE TRACKED INLAND ACROSS THE ERN BIG BEND COASTAL COUNTIES. NO CHGS ATTM TO ZONES. 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 7:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette | 34 min |
| Feb 16, 8:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Taylor | 49 min |
| Feb 16, 8:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Madison | 32 min |
| Feb 17, 12:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 30 min |
| Feb 17, 12:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.