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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 4, 1988Talbot County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 4, 1988, 6:05 PM EST for Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Nov 4, 1988, 6:05 PM EST (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Nov 4, 1988, 6:30 PM EST
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Talbot County, GA

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 4, 6:20 PM ESTHail 0.75Talbot, GA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 250 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, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1988-11-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1988-11-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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
Nov 4, 1:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHolmes30 min
Nov 4, 4:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHarris, Muscogee66 min
Nov 4, 4:20 PM ESTTornado WarningTAERussell25 min
Nov 4, 6:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAERussell57 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 1988Every tornado warning in 1988Tornadoes in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.