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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 18, 1998Grady County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1998, 8:45 PM EDT for Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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
Jun 18, 1998, 8:45 PM EDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1998, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Grady County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 1998-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2537 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2537 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.8

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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 Jun 18, 8:40 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 8:40 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 8:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson47 min
Jun 19, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMadison48 min
Jun 19, 7:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHolmes65 min
Jun 19, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHouston63 min
Jun 19, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECoffee61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.