Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1998, 4:02 PM EDT for Madison County, Florida. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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
- May 4, 1998, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1998, 4:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 4:05 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Cherry Lake, FL | Dime to golfball sized hail covering the ground in Cherry Lake. |
| May 4, 4:10 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Pinetta, FL | Dime to golfball sized hail along State Highway 145 just south of Pinetta. |
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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1949 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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 May 4, 2:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 245 PM EDT MON MAY 4 1998 CLOSED UPPER LOW OVER THE OH VALLEY OPENS UP AND LIFTS NE WITH THE TROF AXIS OFF THE ATLANTIC COAST BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE WEAK COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TROF NOW EXTENDS ALONG A LINE FROM TLH TO JUST EAST OF ABY. AS SUSPECTED EARLIER...LOOKS LIKE MOST CONVECTION THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL BE ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL GA AND N FL. MAY BE A NEED FOR LOW CHC POPS OVER EASTERN COUNTIES IN THE BIG BEND AND SOUTH-CENTRAL GA FOR THIS EVENING DEPENDING ON HOW FAR EAST BOUNDARY MAKES IT IN THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS...BUT THAT CAN BE DECIDED RIGHT BEFORE ZONE RELEASE TIME. THE FRONTAL SYSTEM DIES OUT AS IT MOVES EAST BUT SHOULD MAKE IT FAR ENOUGH TO THE EAST THAT SOME DRIER AIR WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA DURING THE DAY TUES. OTHER THAN POSSIBLE LOW POPS IN THE EAST TONIGHT...NO POPS REST OF PERIOD. NO BIG CHANGES IN TEMPS OTHER THAN COOLER MINS. GUIDNC TEMPS LOOK OK. 10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson | 63 min |
| May 4, 2:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 49 min |
| May 4, 3:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 50 min |
| May 4, 3:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 61 min |
| May 4, 4:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 47 min |
| May 4, 4:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 62 min |
| May 4, 8:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin | 49 min |
| May 4, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 33 min |
| May 4, 2:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 60 min |
| May 4, 2:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 62 min |
| May 4, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 50 min |
| May 4, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lanier | 35 min |
| May 4, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 47 min |
| May 3, 11:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 48 min |
| May 4, 12:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 63 min |
| May 4, 12:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 63 min |
| May 4, 1:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Houston | 65 min |
| May 4, 1:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 64 min |
| May 4, 2:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 65 min |
| May 4, 2:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 34 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 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.