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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 1990, 7:04 AM EST for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 10, 1990, 7:04 AM EST (12:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1990, 7:45 AM EST
- In force
- 41 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCSG 101207
TORCSG
GAC215-101245-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
704 AM EST SAT FEB 10 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
...MUSCOGEE
COLUMBUS 911 REPORTED TORNADO ON AMBER DRIVE...REPORTED ON THE GROUND
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.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Feb 10, 6:28 AM EST, 36 minutes before
FLZ005-GAZ011-031200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 625 AM EST SAT FEB 10 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 29 REAMINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST... AT 620 AM RADAR INDICATED A 40 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM THOMASVILLE GEORGIA TO JUST EAST OF PANAMA CITY FLORIDA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HOWEVER...AT THIS TIME NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE W ATCH AREA. PERSONS LIVING IN NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER THIS MORNING. STAY TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. JCB
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, 5:57 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Muscogee | 63 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, 7:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Lee, Worth | 68 min |
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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.