Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 47, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 7:48 PM EDT for Liberty County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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, 7:48 PM EDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Liberty County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| Sep 15, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 152349
TORTLH
FLC077-160015-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0026.040915T2348Z-040916T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
748 PM EDT WED SEP 15 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN FLORIDA
* UNTIL 815 PM EDT
* AT 745 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A DEVELOPING TORNADO 17 MILES NORTH OF APALACHICOLA...MOVING
NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BON AMI...KERN...WILMA AND CENTRAL CITY BY 800 PM EDT...
LEWIS AND ORANGE BY 805 PM EDT...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833.
A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EDT THURSDAY
MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST
GEORGIA.
LAT...LON 3007 8508 3009 8508 3013 8511 3020 8511
3028 8503 3031 8497 3002 8484 3002 8500
2999 8501
$$
12-WATSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 5:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon | 29 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, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 47 min |
| Sep 15, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 46 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.