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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2004, 2:13 PM CDT for Coffee County, Dale County, Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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
- May 31, 2004, 2:13 PM CDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2004, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
577 WFUS52 KTAE 311913 TORTLH ALC031-045-061-311945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 211 PM CDT MON MAY 31 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA SOUTHWESTERN DALE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA CENTRAL GENEVA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 211 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF COFFEE SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GENEVA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CHANCELLOR...CENTRAL CITY BY 215 PM CDT... BELLWOOD...OAK GROVE BY 225 PM CDT... CLAYHATCHEE BY 230 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON VEHICLES. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT... DITCH...OR LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. LAT...LON 3126 8601 3109 8603 3106 8572 3126 8571 $$ 10-BOLINSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 32 min |
| May 31, 1:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 24 min |
| May 31, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 28 min |
| May 31, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 22 min |
| May 31, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 36 min |
| May 31, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 22 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.