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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2004, 5:42 PM EDT for Decatur County, Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2004, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
511 WFUS52 KTAE 312142 TORTLH GAC087-131-312215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 542 PM EDT MON MAY 31 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL DECATUR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES BAINBRIDGE... WESTERN GRADY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES CAIRO... * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 539 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF BAINBRIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BAINBRIDGE...WEST BAINBRIDGE BY 543 PM EDT... WHIGHAM BY 605 PM EDT... CAIRO BY 610 PM EDT... 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 3096 8464 3077 8467 3070 8421 3098 8422 $$ 10-BOLINSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Seminole | 22 min |
| May 31, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 41 min |
| May 31, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Thomas | 29 min |
| May 31, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks | 36 min |
| May 31, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks | 31 min |
| May 31, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.