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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2004, 1:55 PM EDT for Decatur County, Seminole County, Georgia; Jackson County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 26, 2004, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2004, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jackson County, FL, Decatur County, GA, Seminole County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
856 WFUS52 KTAE 261755 TORTLH FLC063-GAC087-253-261830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 155 PM EDT SAT JUN 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SEMINOLE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 230 PM EDT(130 PM CDT) * AT 1250 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FAIRCHILD...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF MARIANNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 230 PM EDT(130 PM CDT)... SEMINOLE STATE PARK...SNEADS... FAIRCHILD... DESSER... LAT...LON 3088 8494 3067 8493 3074 8480 3090 8484 $$ 7-TREXLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller, Seminole | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 10:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 26, 12:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon | 36 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2004Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes 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.