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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 22, 1992Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 22, 1992, 2:38 PM EST for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 22, 1992, 2:38 PM EST (19:38 UTC)
Expired
Nov 22, 1992, 3:15 PM EST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Muscogee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-11-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 484 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-11-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 165 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
484 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCSG 221940
TORCSG
GAC215-222015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
238 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MUSCOGEE COUNTY
 
TORNADO REPORTED BY 911 IN THE NORTH END OF COLUMBUS GEORGIA.
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 22, 11:49 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHarris, Muscogee116 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.