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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 22, 1989Taylor County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1989, 6:42 PM EDT for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1989, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1989, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor 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

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1989-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 496 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1989-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
496 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 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 KCSG 222246 RRA
TORCSG
GAC215-269-222315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
642 PM EDT THU JUN 22 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
          ...MUSCOGEE...TAYLOR
 
A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR AT COLUMBUS GEORGIA MOVING EAST.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 6:42 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEMuscogee33 min
Jun 22, 7:02 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEMuscogee, Talbot28 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.