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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 10, 1990Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 1990, 5:57 AM EST for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 63 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: Feb 10, 1990, 5:57 AM EST (10:57 UTC)
Expired: Feb 10, 1990, 7:00 AM EST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Muscogee 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	Remark
Feb 10, 7:02 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Muscogee, 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

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCSG 101100
TORCSG
GAC215-101200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
557 AM EST SAT FEB 10 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
          ...MUSCOGEE
 
TORNADO REPORT BY COLUMBUS 911...TOUCHDOWN AROUND 2ND AVE IN DOWNTOWN
COLUMBUS GA....NO MOVEMENT REPORTED
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 10, 5:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Harris, Muscogee, Talbot	69 min
Feb 10, 5:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Chattahoochee	69 min
Feb 10, 6:06 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Marion, Schley, Stewart, Taylor	69 min
Feb 10, 6:06 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Macon	69 min
Feb 10, 6:37 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Tift	68 min
Feb 10, 7:04 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Muscogee	41 min
Feb 10, 7:07 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Worth	68 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.