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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 31, 2004Brooks County, Georgia; Jefferson County, Madison County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2004, 7:14 PM EDT for Brooks County, Georgia; Jefferson County, Madison County, Florida. It was in force for 31 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, 7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jefferson County, FL, Madison County, FL, Brooks 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
May 31, 4:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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.

241 
WFUS52 KTAE 312314
TORTLH
FLC065-079-GAC027-312345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  SOUTHERN BROOKS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES QUITMAN...

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 709 PM EDT LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO SOUTH OF THE 
COUNTY JAIL ON HIGHEWAY 19...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  QUITMAN BY 715 PM EDT...

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 IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR
A REINFORCED SHELTER.

IF A TORNADO THREATENS YOUR LOCATION GO TO YOUR SAFE ROOM OR TORNADO
SHELTER. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A SAFE ROOM OR TORNADO SHELTER...SEEK
SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OF THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME.

RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN 
TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833.

LAT...LON 3076 8373 3052 8377 3049 8333 3079 8352

$$

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, 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, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	35 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.