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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 15, 2004Decatur County, Seminole County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2004, 6:50 PM EDT for Decatur County, Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2004, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Decatur County, GA, Seminole County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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
Jul 15, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 152250
TORTLH
GAC087-253-152315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
650 PM EDT THU JUL 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
  EASTERN SEMINOLE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 646 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BRINSON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  DONALSONVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. 

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CYRENE...HANOVER BY 655 PM EDT...
  REYNOLDSVILLE...HALES LANDING BY 710 PM EDT...
  HUTCHINSON LANDING...RECOVERY BY 715 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.

LAT...LON 3072 8485 3105 8485 3107 8466 3105 8465
      3099 8465 3098 8463 3091 8463 3071 8459
      3071 8483

$$

48-TURNAGE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early	53 min
Jul 15, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker	50 min
Jul 15, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty	38 min
Jul 15, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin, Turner	47 min
Jul 15, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Worth	48 min
Jul 15, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Cook	46 min
Jul 15, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Miller	39 min
Jul 15, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	45 min
Jul 15, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Cook	46 min
Jul 15, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt	15 min
Jul 15, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay	46 min
Jul 15, 7:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur	25 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.