This is essentially the same question as "how does a tiny dipole antenna transmit a wave of several kilometers wavelength"? If you're designing an antenna to transmit a wave, you can indeed get a dipole a few centimeters long to transmit low frequency RF, say less than one MHz. Many commercial transceivers do this; it's not ideal, and you need to drive the antenna with a great deal of current (including it in a resonant circuit helps), but it can certainly be done. The "efficiency" of the process is measured by the antenna's radiation resistance, which measures the work that the antenna can do on the radiating electromagnetic field for a given current. For a short dipole approximation the radiation resistance is
$$R_{rad}=\frac{\pi}{6}\, \mathcal{Z}_0\, \left(\frac{L}{\lambda}\right)^2$$
where $\mathcal{Z}_0 = \sqrt{\frac{\mu_0}{\epsilon_0}}\approx 377{\rm \Omega}$ is the characteristic impedance of freespace. You can see that all nonzero length antennas have a radiation resistance: it's just very small for lengths a great deal less than a wavelength, but, as I said, you can make up for this inefficiency by including the antenna in a resonant circuit.
Likewise, the fluorescing or relaxing excited atom looks, from the EM field point of view, like a tiny dipole antenna. To get more intuition for this idea, I'd urge you to look up the solution of Maxwell's equations for the dipole antenna and study it in detail. Spherical wave solutions certainly exist at all wavelengths for arbitrarily small dipoles: near the source at distances much less than a wavelength, there is a nearfield which is nonpropagating, but the wave becomes more like a plane wave as it propagates over several wavelengths. Many undergraduate physics texts will show you this solution and there are many electromagnetics courses online to help you here.