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Tornado Warning 110, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 27, 2004Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2004, 12:02 AM EDT for Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 27, 2004, 12:02 AM EDT (04:02 UTC)
Expired: Sep 27, 2004, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ware County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 26, 4:25 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 135 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 270401
TORJAX
GAC299-270430-
/X.NEW.KJAX.TO.W.0019.040927T0402Z-040927T0430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1202 AM EDT MON SEP 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WARE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1230 AM EDT

* AT 1152 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WARESBORO...OR ABOUT NEAR
  WAYCROSS...MOVING WEST AT 60 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  MILLWOOD.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...OR YOU CAN CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE DIRECTLY AT 800-499-1594 TO REPORT
SEVERE WEATHER.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT MONDAY MORNING FOR
NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3125 8240 3110 8245 3109 8249 3112 8256
      3112 8261 3118 8266 3128 8268 3128 8263
      3131 8261 3131 8258

$$

HESS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 26, 9:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Charlton	35 min
Sep 26, 10:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden	32 min
Sep 26, 10:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Clinch	33 min
Sep 26, 11:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Ware	24 min
Sep 26, 11:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Clinch	27 min
Sep 27, 12:48 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Clinch	27 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.