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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 7:23 AM EDT for Dougherty County, Mitchell County, Worth County, Georgia. 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 16, 2004, 7:23 AM EDT (11:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 8:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dougherty County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Worth 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 |
| Sep 16, 6:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 161124 TORTLH GAC095-205-321-161215- /X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0047.040916T1123Z-040916T1215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 723 AM EDT THU SEP 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN WORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA EASTERN DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA NORTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 815 AM EDT * AT 721 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF EAST DOUGHERTY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PUTNEY...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREAS. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... EAST DOUGHERTY BY 735 AM EDT... TURNER CITY BY 745 AM EDT... 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 FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR FLORIDA AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3135 8411 3135 8390 3163 8388 3161 8412 $$ 9-FOURNIER
The 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, 6:34 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early, Miller, Seminole | 26 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, 7:48 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.