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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 3:17 PM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gulf 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, 8.3 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 152017 TORTLH FLC045-152100- /X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0003.040915T2017Z-040915T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 417 PM EDT WED SEP 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN GULF COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PORT ST. JOE * UNTIL 500 PM EDT(400 PM CDT) * AT 414 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORT ST. JOE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PORT ST. JOE BY 425 PM EDT... 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 1100 PM EDT THIS EVENING (1000 PM CDT). LAT...LON 2959 8527 2971 8517 3004 8527 2991 8553 $$ 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, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 40 min |
| Sep 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 29 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.