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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 15 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
- Sep 28, 1998, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 1998, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walton County, FL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 855 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
765 WFUS1 KTLH 290132 RRA TORTLH FLC131-290145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 930 PM EDT MON SEP 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WALTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT (945 PM EDT) * AT 828 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO BETWEEN LIBERTY AND DE FUNIAK SPRINGS MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL ALSO MOVE JUST EAST OF LIBERTY AND TOWARDS GASKIN. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON VEHICLES. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH...OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. BEWARE THE THREAT OF RISING WATER. TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT WHEN THEY ARE DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE. SEEK REFUGE IN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 15 min |
| Sep 29, 12:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Walton | 12 hr |
| Sep 29, 6:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 63 min |
| Sep 29, 7:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Washington | 6 hr |
| Sep 29, 8:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 8:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Washington | 31 min |
| Sep 29, 8:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes | 46 min |
| Sep 29, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 77 min |
| Sep 29, 9:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 61 min |
| Sep 29, 10:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Jackson | 77 min |
| Sep 29, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 35 min |
| Sep 29, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty | 4 hr |
| Sep 29, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Franklin, Wakulla | 4 hr |
| Sep 29, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 76 min |
| Sep 29, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 76 min |
| Sep 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 60 min |
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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.