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Tornado Watch 904

November 24, 200412 counties in Florida; 23 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 24, 2004, 2:50 PM EST for 12 counties in Florida; 23 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Nov 24, 2004, 2:50 PM EST (19:50 UTC)
Expired
Nov 24, 2004, 7:00 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties

Baker County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Levy County, FL, Madison County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Echols County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 24, 3:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAtkinson, Coffee27 min
Nov 24, 4:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXEchols25 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 2004-11-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1093 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-11-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1093 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 24, 6:20 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCEscambia, Santa Rosa6 hr
Nov 24, 8:11 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more64 min
Nov 24, 9:03 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more57 min
Nov 24, 9:30 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 7 more6 hr
Nov 24, 12:24 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 7 more2 hr
Nov 24, 4:30 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Citrus, Columbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Hernando and 4 more2 hr
Nov 24, 6:36 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Gilchrist and 3 more24 min
Nov 23, 10:00 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDade2 hr
Nov 24, 8:25 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBarrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 44 more6 hr
Nov 24, 10:23 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan and 90 more97 min
Nov 24, 10:40 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler and 40 more6 hr
Nov 24, 2:13 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler and 40 more2 hr

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.