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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2004, 4:57 PM EDT for Pierce County, Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2004, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pierce County, GA, 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 5, 1:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 052058 TORJAX GAC229-299-052145- /X.NEW.KJAX.TO.W.0010.040905T2057Z-040905T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 457 PM EDT SUN SEP 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN PIERCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BLACKSHEAR NORTHERN WARE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR BLACKSHEAR...MOVING WEST AT 45 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO DEENWOOD AND DIXIE UNION. 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 900 PM EDT. LAT...LON 3125 8222 3142 8225 3142 8254 3120 8255 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 4:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 44 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 |
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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.