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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 15, 2004Houston County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 9:44 PM CDT for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Houston 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 160245
TORTLH
ALC069-160330-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0039.040916T0244Z-040916T0330Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...DOTHAN...COTTONWOOD

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 940 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTH OF COTTONWOOD...OR NEAR MARIANNA...       
  MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  COTTONWOOD BY 1005 PM CDT...
  COWARTS BY 1015 PM CDT...
  DOWNTOWN DOTHAN AND WEBB BY 1020 PM CDT...
  KINSEY BY 1025 PM CDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

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 3131 8529 3100 8517 3100 8517 3100 8540
      3110 8546 3120 8546 3122 8552 3127 8555
      3130 8542 3132 8539

$$

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, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee, Geneva	52 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

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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.