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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 26, 2004Grady County, Thomas County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 26, 2004, 12:55 PM EST for Grady County, Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
Jan 26, 2004, 12:55 PM EST (17:55 UTC)
Expired
Jan 26, 2004, 1:30 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Grady County, GA, Thomas County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 26, 10:30 AM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-01-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 549 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2004-01-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 219 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
549 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
281 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
4.5

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The text

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

164 
WFUS52 KTAE 261755
TORTLH
GAC131-275-261830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1255 PM EST MON JAN 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN THOMAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  

* UNTIL 130 PM EST

* AT 1250 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF
  OCHLOCKNEE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAIRO...MOVING EAST AT
  30 MPH.

LAT...LON 3105 8419 3087 8422 3079 8376 3103 8375

$$

9-FOURNIER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 12:19 PM ESTTornado WarningTAEDecatur, Grady41 min
Jan 26, 1:01 PM ESTTornado WarningTAETift, Worth44 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.