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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 2:35 PM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 3:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
836 WFUS1 KTLH 291936 RRA TORTLH FLC045-292010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 335 PM EDT TUE SEP 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GULF COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 410 PM EDT * AT 333 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST SOUTHEAST OF WHITE CITY AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST OF WEWAHITCHKA. 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. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8999.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 15 min |
| Sep 28, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 15 min |
| Sep 29, 12:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Walton | 12 hr |
| Sep 29, 6:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 63 min |
| Sep 29, 7:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Washington | 6 hr |
| Sep 29, 8:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 48 min |
| Sep 29, 8:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Washington | 31 min |
| Sep 29, 8:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes | 46 min |
| Sep 29, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 77 min |
| Sep 29, 9:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 61 min |
| Sep 29, 10:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Jackson | 77 min |
| Sep 29, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty | 4 hr |
| Sep 29, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Franklin, Wakulla | 4 hr |
| Sep 29, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 76 min |
| Sep 29, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 76 min |
| Sep 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 60 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.