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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 15, 2004Coffee County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2004, 4:52 PM EDT for Coffee County, Georgia. It was in force for 8 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, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
8 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Coffee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2953 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 152052
TORJAX
GAC069-152100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 448 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF NICHOLLS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  WEST OF ALMA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 500 PM EDT...
  NICHOLLS AND WEST GREEN...

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 3157 8263 3153 8260 3147 8261 3149 8276
      3157 8279 3162 8277 3166 8267 3166 8264
$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 12:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCharlton45 min
Jul 15, 12:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCharlton44 min
Jul 15, 1:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley, Wayne45 min
Jul 15, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee50 min
Jul 15, 2:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling47 min
Jul 15, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBacon52 min
Jul 15, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWayne49 min
Jul 15, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWare40 min
Jul 15, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPierce43 min
Jul 15, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling, Wayne39 min
Jul 15, 3:09 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXPierce, Ware51 min
Jul 15, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWayne43 min
Jul 15, 3:42 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXWayne33 min
Jul 15, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClinch48 min
Jul 15, 4:00 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXWare45 min
Jul 15, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXJeff Davis46 min
Jul 15, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee40 min
Jul 15, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling39 min
Jul 15, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCharlton39 min
Jul 15, 4:48 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXBacon57 min
Jul 15, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWare37 min
Jul 15, 5:15 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXWare30 min
Jul 15, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPierce41 min
Jul 15, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee40 min
Jul 15, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCharlton47 min
Jul 15, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden62 min
Jul 15, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWare42 min
Jul 15, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXGlynn54 min
Jul 15, 6:26 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXGlynn34 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.