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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 18, 1990Grady County, Thomas County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1990, 7:00 PM EDT for Grady County, Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 1990, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 1990, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Grady County, GA, Thomas 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

Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 1990-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2311 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 1990-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 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
2311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
821 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 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 KTLH 182300
SVRTLH
GAC275-131-182345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
700 PM EDT SAT AUG 18 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN THOMAS COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...EAST CENTRAL GRADY COUNTY
 
AT 7 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST THOMAS COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST
AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY L{IGHTNING...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.

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, Aug 18, 4:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
FLZ005-182130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
426 PM EDT SAT AUG 18 1990

AT 425 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF TALLAHASSEE OVER NORTHERN LEON
COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.

MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND THIS
THUNDERSTORM SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF LEON COUNTY OF
NORTH FLORIDA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

JGM

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.