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Tornado Warning 79, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 7, 2004Bacon County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2004, 1:48 PM EDT for Bacon County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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 7, 2004, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 2004, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bacon County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 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 071749
TORJAX
FLC083-071830-
/X.NEW.KJAX.TO.W.0060.040907T1748Z-040907T1830Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
148 PM EDT TUE SEP 7 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARION COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SALT SPRINGS...RAINBOW LAKES
  ESTATES...OCALA...LYNNE...JUNIPER SPRINGS...FORT MCCOY...CITRA

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 142 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR JUNIPER SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO      
  LYNNE.

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.

LAT...LON 2899 8166 2899 8226 2909 8241 2909 8250
      2921 8248 2925 8235 2947 8237 2949 8221
      2942 8218 2942 8209 2952 8184 2947 8182
      2947 8177 2928 8164

$$

WELSH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 9:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Wayne	18 min
Sep 7, 9:16 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden	29 min
Sep 7, 9:39 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Glynn	66 min
Sep 7, 3:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Brantley	25 min
Sep 7, 3:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Charlton	23 min
Sep 7, 4:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden	46 min
Sep 7, 4:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Charlton	22 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.