Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2004, 4:59 PM EDT for Cook County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2004, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cook 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 3672 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KTAE 152059
SVRTLH
GAC075-152145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
458 PM EDT THU JUL 15 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
COOK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT
* AT 458 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES WEST
OF BARNEYVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ADEL...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SPARKS...ADEL BY 505 PM EDT...
BARNESDALE...MASSEE BY 510 PM EDT...
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.
LAT...LON 3106 8331 3106 8351 3109 8354 3117 8352
3127 8346 3122 8335 3118 8334 3117 8331
3111 8332 3106 8331
$$
17-GOULDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early | 53 min |
| Jul 15, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker | 50 min |
| Jul 15, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty | 38 min |
| Jul 15, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Irwin, Turner | 47 min |
| Jul 15, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Worth | 48 min |
| Jul 15, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Miller | 39 min |
| Jul 15, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 45 min |
| Jul 15, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Cook | 46 min |
| Jul 15, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 15 min |
| Jul 15, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay | 46 min |
| Jul 15, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 25 min |
| Jul 15, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 25 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.