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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 19, 1986Franklin County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1986, 9:20 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1986, 9:20 AM EDT (13:20 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1986, 10:00 AM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 21 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 1986-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 613 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, Apalachicola Mun, FL at 12:00Z on 1986-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 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
613 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.6

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The text

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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.