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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 7:25 PM CDT for Henry County, Alabama; Clay County, Quitman County, Randolph County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Henry County, AL, Clay County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA
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, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 11.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 160026 TORTLH ALC067-GAC061-239-243-160100- /X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0030.040916T0025Z-040916T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 825 PM EDT WED SEP 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SOUTHERN QUITMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN SOUTHWESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT(800 PM CDT) * AT 819 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 24 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GEORGETOWN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF FORT GAINES...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GEORGETOWN BY 900 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 300 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING (200 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING) FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3150 8493 3163 8478 3197 8514 3181 8532 $$ 48-TURNAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 34 min |
| Sep 15, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 44 min |
| Sep 15, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 52 min |
| Sep 15, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 46 min |
| Sep 16, 6:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry | 44 min |
| Sep 16, 9:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry, Houston | 48 min |
| Sep 16, 9:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry, Houston | 41 min |
| Sep 16, 5:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early, Miller, Seminole | 26 min |
| Sep 16, 6:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 41 min |
| Sep 16, 6:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 52 min |
| Sep 16, 6:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay, Early | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 7:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 40 min |
| Sep 16, 8:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early | 38 min |
| Sep 16, 9:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 29 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.