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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 1:35 PM CDT for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 40 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
- Sep 15, 2004, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2004, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bay County, FL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 577 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 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 151837 TORTLH FLC005-151915- /X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0001.040915T1835Z-040915T1915Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 135 PM CDT WED SEP 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BAY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT 132 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CAIRO...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF CALLAWAY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BAYOU GEORGE BY 140 PM CDT... MCALLASTER LANDING AND BAYHEAD BY 145 PM CDT... RESOTA BEACH BY 150 PM CDT... 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. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3017 8541 3024 8538 3043 8564 3039 8580 $$ 18-WOOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 10:48 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | ||
| Sep 15, 11:42 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 min | |
| Sep 15, 12:51 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 114 min | |
| Sep 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 29 min |
| Sep 15, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 43 min |
| Sep 15, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 59 min | |
| Sep 15, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 51 min |
| Sep 15, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 50 min |
| Sep 15, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon | 29 min |
| Sep 15, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 23 min |
| Sep 15, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 30 min |
| Sep 15, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 51 min |
| Sep 15, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf | 48 min |
| Sep 15, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 38 min |
| Sep 15, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Washington | 39 min |
| Sep 15, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 47 min |
| Sep 15, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 46 min |
| Sep 15, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Liberty | 27 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.