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Tornado Warning 85, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 7, 2004Charlton County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2004, 4:53 PM EDT for Charlton County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
22 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), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 072053
TORJAX
GAC049-072115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL CHARLTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA  

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 447 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST EAST OF FOLKSTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35  
  MPH.

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.

LAT...LON 3085 8205 3080 8198 3087 8191 3096 8193

$$

ZIBURA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 9:57 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXWayne18 min
Sep 7, 9:16 AM EDTTornado WarningJAXCamden29 min
Sep 7, 9:39 AM EDTTornado WarningJAXGlynn66 min
Sep 7, 1:48 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXBacon27 min
Sep 7, 3:20 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXBrantley25 min
Sep 7, 3:52 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXCharlton23 min
Sep 7, 4:29 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXCamden46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.