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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 15, 2004Decatur County, Seminole County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 6:21 PM EDT for Decatur County, Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Decatur County, GA, Seminole County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 152221
TORTLH
GAC087-253-152245-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0016.040915T2221Z-040915T2245Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DECATUR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
  SEMINOLE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 614 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR WEST BAINBRIDGE...OR ABOUT NEAR
  BAINBRIDGE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BRINSON BY 630 PM EDT...
  IRON CITY...SHARPHAGEN...DONALSONVILLE MUNI AIRPORT AND LELA BY
  640 PM EDT...
  DAVIS PARK...LITTLE HOPE AND RIVERTURN BY 645 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 300 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. 

LAT...LON 3079 8470 3093 8457 3107 8475 3099 8498

$$

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, 5:24 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, 6:23 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.