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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 19, 1992Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 1992, 6:26 PM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 1992, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1992, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Santa Rosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 55 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 113 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 12:28 PM CDTTornado WarningTAEEscambia62 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.