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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 29, 1998Geneva County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 7:08 AM CDT for Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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, 7:08 AM CDT (12:08 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 1998, 7:55 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Geneva County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 28, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1998-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 641 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1998-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 176 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
641 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

573 
WFUS1 KTLH 291210 RRA
TORTLH
ALC061-291255-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
808 AM EDT TUE SEP 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GENEVA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 755 AM CDT (855 AM EDT)

* AT 704 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND
  PREVIOUS REPORTS FROM COUNTY AUTHORITIES IN FLORIDA INDICATED A
  TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GENEVA MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
    GENEVA BY 715 AM CDT
    BELLWOOD BY 720 AM CDT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 29, 12:27 AM CDTTornado WarningTAEGeneva23 min
Sep 29, 1:35 AM CDTTornado WarningTAEGeneva30 min
Sep 29, 2:34 AM CDTTornado WarningTAECoffee36 min
Sep 29, 2:51 AM CDTTornado WarningTAEGeneva19 min
Sep 29, 7:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTAEGeneva6 hr
Sep 29, 9:05 AM CDTTornado WarningTAEGeneva45 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.