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Tornado Warning 90, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 24, 2004Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 9:52 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 38 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: Nov 24, 2004, 9:52 AM CST (15:52 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2004, 10:30 AM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Walton County, FL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 24, 8:30 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 1093 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 241555
TORTAE
FLC131-241630-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0068.041124T1552Z-041124T1630Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
952 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN WALTON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA BEACH

* UNTIL 1030 AM CST

* AT 1048 AM EST(948 AM CST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANTA ROSA
  BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SANTA ROSA BEACH BY 1020 AM CST...

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM PEOPLE IN THE PATH SHOULD MOVE 
TO A SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN 
TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CST WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND 
SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. 

LAT...LON 3036 8636 3026 8603 3042 8599 3054 8625

$$

10-BOLINSKI

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 9:28 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		47 min
Nov 24, 10:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes	46 min
Nov 24, 10:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	34 min
Nov 24, 10:48 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Nov 24, 11:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes, Washington	26 min
Nov 24, 11:23 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		37 min
Nov 24, 11:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay	26 min
Nov 24, 11:56 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Nov 24, 12:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin	32 min
Nov 24, 2:00 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Nov 24, 2:00 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr

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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.