Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2004, 8:34 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida; Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Geneva County, AL, Walton County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 848 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KTAE 160134
SVRTLH
ALC061-FLC131-160200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
834 PM CDT THU JUL 15 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL WALTON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA
SOUTHWESTERN GENEVA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 834 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF GENEVA...
MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
GASKIN...DARLINGTON BY 840 PM CDT...
GLENDALE...CANEY CREEK BY 855 PM CDT...
SAND HILL...CLUSTER SPRINGS BY 900 PM CDT...
THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.
INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 3077 8632 3097 8623 3101 8617 3106 8619
3111 8616 3106 8597 3106 8597 3100 8599
3099 8604 3083 8604 3070 8608
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48-TURNAGEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 50 min |
| Jul 15, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Liberty | 38 min |
| Jul 15, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 46 min |
| Jul 15, 8:22 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 83 min | |
| Jul 15, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 23 min |
| Jul 15, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Liberty | 51 min |
| Jul 15, 9:40 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 95 min | |
| Jul 15, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 24 min |
| Jul 15, 11:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 60 min | |
| Jul 16, 9:39 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 36 min | |
| Jul 16, 9:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 39 min |
| Jul 15, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 22 min |
| Jul 15, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.