Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1998, 11:03 AM CDT for Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 8, 1998, 11:03 AM CDT (16:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 12:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dale County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 11:10 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ozark, AL | Dime sized hail reported by Dale County EMA. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
691 WFUS1 KTLH 081604 RRA TORTLH ALC045-081705- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1203 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1205 PM CDT (105 PM EDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA ...DALE COUNTY AT 1058 AM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO AT FORT RUCKER MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... OZARK BY 1105 AM CDT ECHO BY 1120 AM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM... GO TO A SAFE PLACE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 7:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 64 min |
| Apr 8, 10:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 11:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 63 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.