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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 21, 1990Lee County, Worth County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1990, 2:41 PM EDT for Lee County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports 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: May 21, 1990, 2:41 PM EDT (18:41 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 1990, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lee County, GA, Worth 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

Time	Report	Where
May 21, 2:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Lee, GA
May 21, 2:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Lee, GA
May 21, 3:00 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Worth, 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

Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 236 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2077 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCSG 211841
SVRCSG
GAC321-177-211930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
241 PM EDT MON MAY 21 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN WORTH COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...EASTERN LEE COUNTY
 
AT 238 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES NORTHEAST OF LEESBURG GEORGIA MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	57 min
May 21, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Sumter	60 min
May 21, 4:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Sumter	33 min
May 21, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Macon	54 min
May 21, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Mitchell	58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.