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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 25, 1986Tattnall County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1986, 6:39 PM EDT for Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 1986, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1986, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 1986-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 162 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 1986-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAV 252239
TORSAV
GAC267-252345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA
639 PM EDT WED JUN 25 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...NORTHERN TATTNALL

AT 620 PM EDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC ON LYONS
PARKWAY NEAR REIDSVILLE. IT WAS MOVING NORTH TOW5ARD COLLINS.

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

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 6:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClinch56 min
Jun 25, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBacon60 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.