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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 15, 2004Clay County, Early County, Georgia; Henry County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 5:06 PM EDT for Clay County, Early County, Georgia; Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2004, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Henry County, AL, Clay County, GA, Early County, GA

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, 4:50 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 152109
TORTLH
ALC067-GAC061-099-152145-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0006.040915T2106Z-040915T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
506 PM EDT WED SEP 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
  CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FORT GAINES
  EARLY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT(445 PM CDT)

* AT 500 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTH OF FORT GAINES...OR ABOUT NEAR BLAKELY... 
  MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. THIS TORNADO HAS A HISTORY OF MINOR    
  DAMAGE ALONG ITS PATH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FORT GAINES BY 525 PM EDT...
  ABBEVILLE BY 530 PM EDT...

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 

MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A MORE SECURE STRUCTURE.

RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EDT WEDNESDAY (2 AM 
CDT). 

LAT...LON 3134 8504 3142 8489 3176 8500 3170 8538

$$

17-GOULD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 15, 4:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early, Miller	51 min
Sep 15, 5:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Early	36 min
Sep 15, 5:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early, Miller	48 min
Sep 15, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Grady	29 min
Sep 15, 5:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	48 min
Sep 15, 6:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Grady	35 min
Sep 15, 6:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	24 min
Sep 15, 6:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	37 min
Sep 15, 6:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early	46 min
Sep 15, 6:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell	49 min
Sep 15, 7:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Miller	47 min
Sep 15, 7:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph	40 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2004 Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2004 Every tornado warning in 2004 Tornadoes in 2004

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.