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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 13, 1986Appling County, Tattnall County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1986, 3:18 PM EST for Appling County, Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 13, 1986, 3:18 PM EST (20:18 UTC)
Expired
Mar 13, 1986, 4:15 PM EST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Appling County, GA, Tattnall County, GA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1986-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 128 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1986-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 199 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
128 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAV 132018
TORSAV
GAC001-267-132115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA
318 PM EST THU MAR 13 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...APPLING AND TATTNALL

AT AROUND 3 PM EST A TORNADO WAS REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF BAXLEY
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE COMMUNITIES OF GLENVILLE                          LIE CLOSEST
TO THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO..ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE
HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELYM !!

PLEASE MAKE SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENTS TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

 THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
 ISSUED EARLIER FOR APPLING COUNTY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 2:10 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXWayne3 hr
Mar 13, 3:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBulloch66 min
Mar 13, 4:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBulloch, Effingham64 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes in 1986

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.