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Tornado Warning 66, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 6:34 AM EDT for Early County, Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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 16, 2004, 6:34 AM EDT (10:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Early County, GA, Miller County, GA, Seminole 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 16, 2:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 100 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 161034
TORTLH
GAC099-201-253-161100-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0045.040916T1034Z-040916T1100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
634 AM EDT THU SEP 16 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL EARLY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BLAKELY
WESTERN MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
NORTHERN SEMINOLE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DONALSONVILLE
* UNTIL 700 AM EDT
* AT 629 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF DONALSONVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT
50 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BLAKELY BY 700 AM 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 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING.
LAT...LON 3140 8475 3092 8480 3093 8482 3093 8496
3096 8496 3098 8499 3118 8500 3119 8502
3141 8502
$$
12-WATSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 8:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 35 min |
| Sep 16, 7:01 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay, Early, Quitman, Randolph | 44 min |
| Sep 16, 7:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 41 min |
| Sep 16, 7:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 52 min |
| Sep 16, 7:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay, Early | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 8:20 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 40 min |
| Sep 16, 9:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early | 38 min |
| Sep 16, 10:12 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 48 min |
| Sep 16, 10:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 29 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.