Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2004, 3:08 PM CDT for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 22 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
- May 31, 2004, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Houston County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 858 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
496 WFUS52 KTAE 312008 TORTLH ALC069-312030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 307 PM CDT MON MAY 31 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 300 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COWARTS...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOTHAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... COWARTS BY 315 PM CDT... ASHFORD BY 325 PM CDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON VEHICLES. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT... DITCH...OR LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. LAT...LON 3121 8548 3107 8548 3102 8511 3123 8511 $$ 10-BOLINSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 32 min |
| May 31, 1:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 24 min |
| May 31, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva | 32 min |
| May 31, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 28 min |
| May 31, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 36 min |
| May 31, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 22 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.