Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 6:41 PM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 49 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, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2004, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baker County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 152245 TORTLH GAC007-087-099-131-201-205-152330- /X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0020.040915T2241Z-040915T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 641 PM EDT WED SEP 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BAKER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA NORTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN EARLY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN GRADY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA EASTERN MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SOUTHWEST MITCHELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 635 PM EDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR PEOPLES STILL...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAIRO...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BRANCHVILLE BY 650 PM EDT... HOPEFUL BY 655 PM EDT... HOGGARD MILL AND COOKTOWN BY 705 PM EDT... HAWKINSTOWN AND MIMSVILLE BY 710 PM EDT... ELMODEL WMA...BETHANY...CRESTVIEW AND DOUGLASS CROSSROADS BY 720 PM EDT... MILFORD AND PATMOS BY 725 PM EDT... 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 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 3092 8441 3100 8422 3142 8438 3136 8475 $$ 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, 5:46 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, 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.