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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 5, 2004Wayne County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2004, 4:16 PM EDT for Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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 5, 2004, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 1587 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

900 
WFUS52 KJAX 052017
TORJAX
GAC305-052100-
/X.NEW.KJAX.TO.W.0008.040905T2016Z-040905T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
416 PM EDT SUN SEP 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 408 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCREVEN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  EAST OF PATTERSON...MOVING WEST AT 45 MPH.

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 200 PM EDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO
REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN
FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 3138 8201 3141 8204 3147 8204 3149 8209
      3152 8208 3146 8190 3146 8187 3144 8185
      3138 8185

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 4:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Pierce, Ware	48 min
Sep 5, 5:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Coffee	26 min
Sep 5, 5:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Coffee	42 min
Sep 5, 5:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon, Ware	31 min
Sep 5, 6:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Pierce	47 min
Sep 5, 7:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Ware	23 min
Sep 5, 7:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Atkinson	40 min
Sep 5, 7:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Pierce, Ware	48 min
Sep 5, 7:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Wayne	52 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.