Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 4:52 PM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 23 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, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 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 |
| Sep 15, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 152152
TORTLH
FLC045-152215-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0011.040915T2152Z-040915T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
452 PM CDT WED SEP 15 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
GULF COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT(615 PM EDT)
* AT 447 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR HOWARD CREEK...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST
OF PORT ST. JOE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 55 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
HONEYVILLE BY 500 PM CDT...
WEWAHITCHKA BY 505 PM CDT...
WETAPPO BY 510 PM CDT...
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 UNTIL 200 AM CDT THURSDAY
MORNING (300 AM EDT).
LAT...LON 2982 8518 2993 8501 3022 8524 3021 8537
3007 8539
$$
18-WOOLThe 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, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 43 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, 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.