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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 29, 1998Decatur County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1998, 5:25 PM EDT for Decatur County, Georgia. 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, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Decatur County, GA

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 29, 11:00 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1998-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 675 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1998-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 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
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

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The text

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

668 
WFUS1 KTLH 292128 RRA
TORTLH
GAC087-292200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DECATUR COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 525 PM EDT... SPOTTERS REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN
  SOUTHERN DECATUR COUNTY MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
  MOVE TOWARDS BAINBRIDGE.

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.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...EVACUATE YOUR MOBILE HOME
FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 29, 12:27 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEEarly38 min
Sep 29, 12:35 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEMiller25 min
Sep 29, 4:36 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEGrady, Mitchell49 min
Sep 29, 5:22 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEGrady, Mitchell63 min
Sep 29, 6:14 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEDougherty, Mitchell61 min
Sep 29, 4:25 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEDecatur, Seminole30 min
Sep 29, 4:30 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEWorth30 min
Sep 29, 5:36 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEWorth29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.