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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 2004, 7:20 PM EDT for Decatur 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, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Decatur County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 152320
TORTLH
GAC087-152345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
720 PM EDT THU JUL 15 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 745 PM EDT
* AT 716 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HALES LANDING...OR ABOUT 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAINBRIDGE...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
FACEVILLE LANDING BY 725 PM EDT...
HUTCHINSON LANDING...RECOVERY BY 730 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 3072 8479 3080 8479 3083 8476 3088 8476
3090 8475 3091 8462 3079 8459 3072 8459
3072 8479
$$
48-TURNAGEThe 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, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 25 min |
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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.