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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 5, 2004Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 5, 2004, 7:07 PM EDT for Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2004, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 23 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 5, 1:40 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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

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The text

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

233 
WFUS52 KJAX 052308
TORJAX
GAC299-052330-
/X.NEW.KJAX.TO.W.0019.040905T2307Z-040905T2330Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 701 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A PAIR OF DEVELOPING TORNADOES 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANOR AND VERY 
  NEAR WAYCROSS...MOVING WEST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADOES ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MANOR AND WAYCROSS

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 SUNDAY NIGHT
FOR NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3103 8235 3134 8242 3127 8268 3102 8256

$$

CAMP

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, 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, 7:35 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.