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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 15, 2004Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2004, 4:00 PM EDT for Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 15, 2004, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2004, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ware County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 2953 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 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 152000
TORJAX
GAC299-152045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
400 PM EDT THU JUL 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS EXTENDED

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

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 352 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  NEEDHAM...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF WAYCROSS...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 445 PM EDT...
  NEEDHAM...

PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A BUILDING OR STRUCTURE WHICH WILL 
PROVIDE ADEQUATE PROTECTION. MOBILE HOMES AND TRAILERS DO NOT PROVIDE
ADEQUATE PROTECTION FROM A SEVERE STORM.

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.

LAT...LON 3118 8245 3101 8252 3101 8224 3115 8223
$$
ZAPPE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 12:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton	45 min
Jul 15, 12:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton	44 min
Jul 15, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Brantley, Wayne	45 min
Jul 15, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	50 min
Jul 15, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling	47 min
Jul 15, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Bacon	52 min
Jul 15, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Wayne	49 min
Jul 15, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Ware	40 min
Jul 15, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Pierce	43 min
Jul 15, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Wayne	39 min
Jul 15, 3:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Pierce, Ware	51 min
Jul 15, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Wayne	43 min
Jul 15, 3:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Wayne	33 min
Jul 15, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clinch	48 min
Jul 15, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Jeff Davis	46 min
Jul 15, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	40 min
Jul 15, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling	39 min
Jul 15, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton	39 min
Jul 15, 4:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon	57 min
Jul 15, 4:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Coffee	8 min
Jul 15, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Ware	37 min
Jul 15, 5:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Ware	30 min
Jul 15, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Pierce	41 min
Jul 15, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	40 min
Jul 15, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton	47 min
Jul 15, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden	62 min
Jul 15, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Ware	42 min
Jul 15, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Glynn	54 min
Jul 15, 6:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Glynn	34 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.