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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 15, 2004Coffee County, Geneva County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 8:53 PM CDT for Coffee County, Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 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, 8:53 PM CDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Coffee County, AL, Geneva County, AL

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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 160153
TORTLH
ALC031-061-160245-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0036.040916T0153Z-040916T0245Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ENTERPRISE
  EASTERN GENEVA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 848 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR HARTFORD...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF
  GENEVA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ENTERPRISE BY 920 PM CDT...
  NEW BROCKTON BY 930 PM CDT...

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 200 AM CDT THURSDAY.

LAT...LON 3132 8580 3121 8580 3119 8579 3120 8566
      3110 8555 3100 8564 3100 8572 3127 8607
      3143 8593

$$

12-WATSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 15, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Henry	35 min
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, 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

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.