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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 6, 2004Wayne County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2004, 3:54 PM EDT for Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 66 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 6, 2004, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 66 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), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

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 6, 1:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 830 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 061956
TORJAX
GAC305-062100-
/X.NEW.KJAX.TO.W.0037.040906T1954Z-040906T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
354 PM EDT MON SEP 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SCREVEN...ODUM

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 350 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR SCREVEN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF
  PATTERSON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  DOCTORTOWN AND ODUM.

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 800 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. 

LAT...LON 3140 8170 3134 8171 3138 8180 3137 8201
      3147 8204 3149 8211 3177 8211 3178 8208
      3182 8208 3178 8195 3154 8166 3147 8161

$$

WELSH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 8:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Atkinson	42 min
Sep 5, 8:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon	43 min
Sep 5, 9:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Atkinson	30 min
Sep 5, 9:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Coffee	31 min
Sep 5, 10:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Glynn	26 min
Sep 6, 4:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden	30 min
Sep 6, 10:02 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden	58 min
Sep 6, 10:17 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Charlton	43 min
Sep 6, 10:36 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden	39 min
Sep 6, 12:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Brantley	44 min
Sep 6, 1:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Pierce	57 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.