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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 15, 2004Calhoun County, Early County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 5:24 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Early County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2004, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Calhoun 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 152126
TORTLH
GAC037-099-152200-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0008.040915T2124Z-040915T2200Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
  EASTERN EARLY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 516 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTH OF ARLINGTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF COLQUITT...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ARLINGTON BY 540 PM EDT...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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. 

LAT...LON 3127 8477 3128 8463 3156 8465 3149 8490

$$

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, 5:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Clay, Early	39 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

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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.