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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 5:46 PM EDT for Grady County, Georgia; Leon County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2004, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Leon County, FL, Grady County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
| Sep 15, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 39 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 152146 TORTLH FLC073-GAC131-152215- /X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0010.040915T2146Z-040915T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 546 PM EDT WED SEP 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH LEON COUNTY IN FLORIDA GRADY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CAIRO * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 542 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTH OF CAIRO...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONTICELLO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CAIRO BY 615 PM EDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3060 8412 3064 8404 3097 8414 3085 8437 $$ 9-FOURNIER
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, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Early | 36 min |
| Sep 15, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 48 min |
| Sep 15, 5:57 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 |
| Sep 15, 11:48 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | ||
| Sep 15, 12:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 min | |
| Sep 15, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 114 min | |
| Sep 15, 2:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 40 min |
| Sep 15, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 29 min |
| Sep 15, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 43 min |
| Sep 15, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 59 min | |
| Sep 15, 4:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 51 min |
| Sep 15, 5:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 50 min |
| Sep 15, 5:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 23 min |
| Sep 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 30 min |
| Sep 15, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 51 min |
| Sep 15, 6:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf | 48 min |
| Sep 15, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 38 min |
| Sep 15, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Washington | 39 min |
| Sep 15, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 46 min |
| Sep 15, 7:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Liberty | 27 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.