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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 10, 1986Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 1986, 4:20 PM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 10, 1986, 4:20 PM CST (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Feb 10, 1986, 5:20 PM CST
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

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

Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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, Apalachicola Mun, FL at 12:00Z on 1986-02-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 699 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Apalachicola Mun, FL at 12:00Z on 1986-02-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
699 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.9
Supercell composite
6.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 10, 10:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson60 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.