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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 28, 1998Gadsden County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1998, 8:38 PM EDT for Gadsden County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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
Jul 28, 1998, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1998, 9:10 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Gadsden County, FL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 28, 8:45 PM EDTThunderstorm WindCountywide, FLSeveral trees down countywide. A power outage reported in Quincy.

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 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 Jul 28, 2:56 PM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:56 PM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
256 PM EDT TUE JUL 28 1998

MID-HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING HAS HELD OFF
HEATING AND MOST CONVECTION UNTIL LATER THIS AFTERNOON OVER ALL BUT
GULF COASTAL AREA. OVERALL THOUGH...LITTLE CHANGE IN WEATHER
PATTERN SEEN THROUGH NEXT FCST PERIOD ACROSS OUR AREA. UPPER LEVELS
CHANGE LITTLE AS BROAD RIDGE CONTINUES OVER WESTERN U.S. AND
SHALLOW TROF CONTINUES OVER THE EAST RESULTING IN WEST TO NORTHWEST
FLOW ALTHOUGH WEAK ACROSS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA. EAST-WEST
ORIENTED SURFAE RIDGE ACROSS THE FL PENINSULA INTO EASTERN GULF
WILL CONTINUE AS WELL RESULTING IN A SOUTHWEST TO WEST LOW LEVEL
FLOW ACROSS THE AREA. MOIST UNSTABLE AMS WILL CONTINUE AS PWS
REMAIN NEAR 2 INCHES WITH MODIFIED SOUNDINGS YIELDING AFTERNOON
CAPE VALUES BETWEEN 2500-3500 J/KG. SEA BREEZE WILL BE MAIN TRIGGER
FOR AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND TSTMS. SURFACE TROF IS PROGD TO DEVELOP
THUR ACROSS SC INTO SE GA THAT MAY ALSO HELP TRIGGER FEW MORE
STORMS ACROSS SW GA THEN. FAN POPS SEEM A TAD HIGH...30-40% EACH
AFTERNOON LOOKS GOOD. WARMER FAN TEMPS PREFERRED.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon62 min
Jul 29, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEarly, Miller61 min
Jul 29, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBaker44 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.