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Tornado Warning 82, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 7, 2004Charlton County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2004, 3:52 PM EDT for Charlton 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 7, 2004, 3:52 PM EDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Charlton County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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 nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 071952
TORJAX
GAC049-072015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 349 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR HOMELAND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN AFFECT AREAS AROUND HOMELAND AND 
  WINOKUR.

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 3089 8214 3078 8198 3087 8191 3101 8201

$$

ZIBURA

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, 1:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon	27 min
Sep 7, 3:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Brantley	25 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

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.