Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 5:22 AM EDT for Grady County, Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 63 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
- Sep 29, 1998, 5:22 AM EDT (09:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 6:25 AM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grady County, GA, Mitchell County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 6:05 AM EDT | Tornado F1 | Camilla, GA | An F1 tornado struck Camilla on Mt. Zion Rd and GA 37 uprooting large pines, damaging a residence and farm machinery, and destroying a shed. A man was injured when his pickup truck was blown off GA 262. The tornado toppled numerous pecan trees as it travelle |
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, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 73 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.
808 WFUS1 KTLH 290925 RRA TORTLH GAC131-205-291025- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 522 AM EDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GRADY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA MITCHELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 625 AM EDT * AT 520 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PELHAM OR 4 MILES WEST OF SPENCE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... PELHAM BY 535 AM EDT CAMILLA BY 545 AM EDT 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 EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 38 min |
| Sep 29, 12:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Miller | 25 min |
| Sep 29, 4:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady, Mitchell | 49 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 |
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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.