Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 12:35 AM EDT for Miller County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 29, 1998, 12:35 AM EDT (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miller County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.
553 WFUS1 KTLH 290438 RRA TORTLH GAC201-290500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1235 AM EDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 100 AM EDT * AT 1234 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLQUITT MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... COLQUITT NOW 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Sep 28, 8:59 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 8:59 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 827 PM EDT MON SEP 28 1998 FIRST LAUNCH OF 00Z TUE TLH SOUNDING FAILED...HAVE REQUESTED A SECOND RELEASE. LATEST SATL IMAGERY INDICATES WARMING TOPS AND WEAKENING OF TS GEORGES ALTHOUGH EGLIND 88-D CONTS TO SHOW SEVERAL BANDS OF CONVECTION SPIRALING ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CWA. ATL MAY WANT TO CONSIDER SPLITTING ABY AND VLD AS WINDS AND PCPN LIGHTER MAINLY EAST OF TLH. ELSE NO8 CHGS XPCTD TO FCST ATTM. #13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 12:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 38 min |
| Sep 29, 4:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady, Mitchell | 49 min |
| Sep 29, 5:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady, Mitchell | 63 min |
| Sep 29, 6:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Mitchell | 61 min |
| Sep 29, 4:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 30 min |
| Sep 29, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Worth | 30 min |
| Sep 29, 5:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 35 min |
| Sep 29, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Worth | 29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.