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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 7, 1998Henry County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1998, 1:37 AM CDT for Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1998, 1:37 AM CDT (06:37 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1998, 2:40 AM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Henry County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1998-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1998-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 6, 7:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 7:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 5:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Madison52 min
May 7, 5:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Madison51 min
May 7, 6:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Madison60 min
May 7, 7:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMadison46 min
May 7, 4:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEColquitt, Worth65 min
May 7, 5:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBrooks49 min
May 7, 5:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELowndes64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.