Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1998, 2:07 PM CDT for Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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 3, 1998, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1998, 2:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1084 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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 3, 1:15 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 1:15 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 215 PM EDT SUN MAY 3 1998 BEST DYNAMICS MOVG THRU SRN GA ATTM WITH MODIFIED TLH SNDG YIELDING 2800 J/KG CAPE AND LI ABT -8... WBZ DOWN TO 6100FT. MSTR CONTS IN VERY SHLW LYR BLO H8 AND WKLY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT SO MAIN THREAT CONTS TO BE HAIL ACRS NRN PART OF FA. INDEED SOME STORMS HAVE DELIVERED GOLBALL-SIZED HAIL IN PAST COUPLE OF HOURS THERE. FURTHER SOUTH WITH WEAKER DYNAMICS EVEN SHRA ARE SCARCE BUT THINK WITH CONTD INSOLATION ACRS NRN FL CUD SEE SOME TSRA DVLPMNT B4 SS. MDLS CONT TO AGREE WELL ON MID-LVL PTRN WITH H5 LO MEANDERING ARND OH VLLY DURING PD. NGM AND ETA SHO BEST UVV MOVG ACRS SRN GA ATTM AND WL BE LIFTING INTO SC AFT SUNSET. A WEAK SECONDARY VORT LOBE ROTATES INTO FA REACHING BIG BEND BY SUNRISE AT ETA 6H PCPN HINTS AT OVERNIGHT AMOUNTS SO SEEMS REASONABLE TO KEEP SOME SML POPS THRU THE NIGHT THO THE BIG TSRA WILL BE OUT OF THE PICTURE. FWC TEMPS ARE OK BUT WOULD LEAN A BIT HEAVIER ON OVERNIGHT POPS. AND SLT CHC FOR MON AM SEEMS REASONABLE. FACIANE
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 3, 11:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1249 AM EDT SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1025 AM CUTHBERT GA .75 INCH HAIL
05/03/98 RANDOLPH DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
AT CUTHBERT FIRE
DEPARTMENT.Local storm report, May 3, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
140 PM EDT SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1216 PM FUNSTON GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/03/98 COLQUITT GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL
REPORTED WEST OF MOULTRIE
NEAR FUNSTON.Local storm report, May 3, 12:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
140 PM EDT SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1216 PM FUNSTON GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/03/98 COLQUITT GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL
REPORTED WEST OF MOULTRIE
NEAR FUNSTON.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 34 min |
| May 3, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 67 min |
Nearby
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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.