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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 31, 2004Thomas County, Georgia; Jefferson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2004, 6:46 PM EDT for Thomas County, Georgia; Jefferson County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jefferson County, FL, Thomas County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 312246
TORTLH
FLC065-GAC275-312315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
646 PM EDT MON MAY 31 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  SOUTHEASTERN THOMAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 644 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER JARROTT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  MONTICELLO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

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 3071 8400 3059 8399 3050 8374 3072 8375

$$

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, 5:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	33 min
May 31, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	41 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

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2004 Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2004 Every tornado warning in 2004 Tornadoes in 2004

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.