Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 4:14 PM EDT for Cook County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Jun 25, 1998, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1998, 4:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cook County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Adel, GA | Severe thunderstorm winds raked the Cook County Airport in Adel, damaging four planes and two hangars. The winds knocked out power to 1,000 Sparks residents. A few billboards near Interstate 75 were damaged. |
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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1921 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 25, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 300 PM EDT THU JUN 25 1998 MDLS SHOWING SOME DIFFERENCES WITH REGARD TO HANDLING OF TROPICAL WAVE OVER CENTRAL GULFMEX INTERACTING WITH MID LVL CIRCULATION SEEN IN WATER VAPOR IMAGERY OVR EXTREME WRN GULFMEX. ETA SEEMS TO WANT TO COMBINE THESE TWO FEATURES AND MOVE THEM OVER NERN MEX/S TX ON FRIDAY MORNING. MEANWHILE...AVN KEEPS SYSTEMS SEPARATE AND MOVS VORTICITY ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL SYSTEM NW INTO SRN LA FRIDAY AFTERNOON. NGM LOOKS CONFUSED. AM INCLINED TO FOLLOW CLOSER TO AVN WITH THIS TROPICAL SYSTEM MOVING INTO LA/SE TX ON FRIDAY. AT ANY RATE...IT APPEARS THAT WE WILL ONLY SEE EDGE OF HIGH CLOUDINESS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM...ALTHO THIS SYSTEM HAS HELPED TO DEEPEN THE MOISTURE ACROSS THE FCST AREA. OTHER SYSTEM OF NOTE IS SHORTWAVE SEEN ON SATL IMAGERY DIVING SLOWLY DOWN SE COAST. SEEN PLENTY OF PULSE SVR EVENTS OVR NE FL WITH THIS TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT AND CURRENT EVENTS SEEM TO BE BEARING THIS OUT AGAIN. ALL THREE MDLS KEEP MAIN VORT CNTR OFF FL COAST THRU LATE TONITE...WHICH SHOULD KEEP CONVECTION FIRING UNTIL WELL AFTER SUNSET. IT APPEARS AS IF THIS SYSTEM WILL REMAIN TOO FAR TO OUR E TO AFFECT ALL BUT ERN EDGE OF FCST AREA. ALL THE SAME... MIA/ATL MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER LUMPING ERN EDGE OF FCST AREA IN WITH JAX ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR HIER PRECIP CHC THRU LATE EVE. WITH THAT SAID...DIURNAL/SEABREEZE FORCING WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE FOR WIDELY SCT TO SCT TSRA ACROSS FCST AREA INTO SATURDAY. PREFER WARMER FWC NUMBERS. SFDMIA NUMBERS LOOK OK. MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Turner | 50 min |
| Jun 25, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 48 min |
| Jun 25, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker | 48 min |
| Jun 25, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.