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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 8, 1992Franklin County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1992, 7:25 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1992, 7:25 AM EDT (11:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1992, 8:30 AM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1992-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1691 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1992-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
1691 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, Jun 8, 6:57 AM EDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALALACHICOLA FL
628 PM EDT SUN JUN 7 1992

AT 628 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN APALACHICOLA
FLORIDA INDICATED AN AREA OF SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS RAINSHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OFF COASTAL WATERS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.

THESE RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE VERY
HEAVY RAIN...WITH THE POSSIBITY OF FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS.              o

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

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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.