Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 2:34 AM CDT for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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
- Sep 29, 1998, 2:34 AM CDT (07:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 3:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coffee County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 2:40 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Enterprise, AL | An F1 tornado touched down on CR 725 near Enterprise. One residence suffered roof damage. Camp Wiregrass sustained moderate to severe damage with several buildings crumpled, trees and power lines down, and scattered debris. Numerous customers in Enterprise |
| Sep 29, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | New Brockton, AL | An F1 tornado descended near CR 732 in New Brockton damaging several chicken houses, roads, ditches, and drainage systems. |
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 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, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.
287 WFUS1 KTLH 290736 RRA TORTLH ALC031-290810- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 334 AM EDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 310 AM CDT (410 AM EDT) * AT 228 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ENTERPRISE MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... ENTERPRISE BY 240 AM CDT NEW BROCKTON BY 245 AM CDT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 12:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 23 min |
| Sep 29, 1:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 30 min |
| Sep 29, 2:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 19 min |
| Sep 29, 7:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 47 min |
| Sep 29, 7:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Geneva | 6 hr |
| Sep 29, 9:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.