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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 19, 1998Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1998, 7:33 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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 19, 1998, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1998, 8:20 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Walton County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Darlington, FL	Tornado touchdown at the junction of Florida Highway 2 and U.S. Highway 331 about five miles southwest of Darlington. Numerous pine tree tops snapped.
Jun 19, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Caney Creek, FL	Tornado touchdown at the intersection of Caney Creek and Florida Highway 2 just near Caney Creek. Numerous pine tree tops snapped.

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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1048 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

725 
WFUS1 KTLH 200032 RRA
TORTLH
FLC131-200120-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
833 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WALTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 820 PM CDT (920 PM EDT)

* AT 728 PM CDT... SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 13 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF DE FUNIAK SPRINGS OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GASKIN MOVING SOUTH
  AT 10 MPH. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED ON THE GROUND NEAR THE
  JUNCTION OF HIGHWAYS 2 AND 331.

*


THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.

&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	45 min
Jun 20, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	61 min
Jun 20, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes	59 min
Jun 20, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay	32 min
Jun 20, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.