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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 4, 1998Madison County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at May 4, 1998, 4:12 PM EDT for Madison County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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
May 4, 1998, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 1998, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 1998-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1949 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1998-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1949 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
5.0

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The text

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

312 
WFUS1 KTLH 042011 RRA
TORTLH
FLC079-042045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
412 PM EDT MON MAY 4 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 409 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH
  OF MADISON OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PINETTA MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
SOUTH OF PINETTA                    BY 420 PM 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 2:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHolmes, Jackson63 min
May 4, 2:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWalton49 min
May 4, 3:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson50 min
May 4, 3:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHolmes, Walton, Washington61 min
May 4, 4:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson47 min
May 4, 4:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay62 min
May 4, 8:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin49 min
May 4, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMadison48 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.