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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 8, 2004Colquitt County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2004, 1:37 PM EDT for Colquitt 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: Apr 8, 2004, 1:37 PM EDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2004, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Colquitt County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 8, 10:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 1201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 486 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 7.0

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The text

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

169 
WUUS52 KTAE 081737
SVRTLH
GAC071-081800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
136 PM EDT THU APR 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COLQUITT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 136 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER BAY...
  OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF MOULTRIE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS ARE 
ALSO POSSIBLE.

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 3133 8397 3112 8399 3106 8360 3129 8353

$$

BOLINSKI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 12:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early	44 min
Apr 8, 12:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early, Miller	49 min
Apr 8, 12:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	43 min
Apr 8, 12:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	32 min
Apr 8, 1:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller, Seminole	43 min
Apr 8, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Tift	37 min
Apr 8, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook	32 min
Apr 8, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	26 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.