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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 16, 1990Russell County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1990, 3:23 PM CST for Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 16, 1990, 3:23 PM CST (21:23 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 1990, 4:15 PM CST
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Russell County, AL

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

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 1990-03-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1990-03-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 16, 2:57 PM CST, 26 minutes before
FLZ003-005-GAZ011-012-162300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
356 PM EST (256 PM CST) FRI MAR 16 1990

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST THIS FRIDAY
AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH FLORIDA AND FOR SOUTHWEST
AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. AT THIS TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
RADARS INDICATED ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS FROM DOTHAN AL TO CRESTVIEW FL.
THIS WILL BE THE LAST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT UNTIL RADAR OR SURFACE
REPORTS INDICATE ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 3:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHarris, Muscogee53 min
Mar 16, 4:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAETalbot53 min
Mar 16, 8:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa59 min
Mar 16, 9:51 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa2 hr
Mar 16, 10:37 AM CSTTornado WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa38 min
Mar 16, 12:04 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa116 min
Mar 16, 1:55 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa2 hr
Mar 16, 2:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa61 min
Mar 16, 3:55 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa5 hr
Mar 16, 3:55 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningTAEOkaloosa5 hr
Mar 16, 4:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa28 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.