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Tornado Warning 77, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 16, 2004Henry County, Houston County, Alabama; Early County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 9:12 AM CDT for Henry County, Houston County, Alabama; Early County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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, 9:12 AM CDT (14:12 UTC)
Expired: Sep 16, 2004, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Early 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, 1:10 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 878 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 428 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 501 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.8
Supercell composite: 13.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 161412
TORTLH
ALC067-069-GAC099-161500-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0056.040916T1412Z-040916T1500Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
912 AM CDT THU SEP 16 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
  EASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
  WESTERN EARLY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BLAKELY

* UNTIL 1000 AM CDT(1100 AM EDT)

* AT 906 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBIA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  EAST OF COTTONWOOD...MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  COLUMBIA BY 925 AM CDT...
  BLAKELY BY 1030 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.

LAT...LON 3108 8518 3107 8509 3140 8491 3142 8520

$$

9-FOURNIER

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 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, 9:34 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

Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2004 Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2004 Every tornado warning in 2004 Tornadoes in 2004

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.