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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 8, 2004Dougherty County, Mitchell County, Worth County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2004, 12:47 PM EDT for Dougherty County, Mitchell County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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, 12:47 PM EDT (16:47 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2004, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dougherty County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Worth 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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.

102 
WUUS52 KTAE 081647
SVRTLH
GAC095-205-321-081730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1246 PM EDT THU APR 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN WORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA   
  NORTHEERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT

* AT 1246 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF LESTER...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF PUTNEY...MOVING
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.


LAT...LON 3153 8414 3133 8415 3137 8367 3161 8370

$$

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, 12:58 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, 1:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt	23 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.