Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2004, 1:52 PM EDT for Franklin County, Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 8 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
- Jul 15, 2004, 1:52 PM EDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2004, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Franklin County, FL, Wakulla County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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 nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 3672 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 151752 TORTLH FLC037-129-151800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 151 PM EDT THU JUL 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN FLORIDA EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL WAKULLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 200 PM EDT * AT 143 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF LANARK VILLAGE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF CARRABELLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LANARK VILLAGE BY 150 PM EDT... MCINTYRE...OCHLOCKONEE RIVER STATE PARK BY 155 PM EDT... ST TERESA...ALLIGATOR POINT BY 200 PM EDT... 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. LAT...LON 3003 8464 2986 8468 2980 8437 2999 8433 $$ 48-TURNAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 12:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 55 min | |
| Jul 15, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty | 21 min |
| Jul 15, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 31 min |
| Jul 15, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 25 min | |
| Jul 15, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 95 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.