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Tornado Warning 91, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 10:26 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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, 10:26 AM CST (16:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 34 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 241627 TORTAE FLC131-241700- /X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0069.041124T1626Z-041124T1700Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1026 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN WALTON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA BEACH * UNTIL 1100 AM CST * AT 1124 AM EST(1024 AM CST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUE TO INDICATE A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR SANTA ROSA BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... FREEPORT BY 1035 AM CST... OWLS HEAD AND ROCK HILL BY 1040 AM CST... RED BAY AND EUCHEEANNA BY 1050 AM CST... WALCAN BY 1055 AM CST... 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 ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3038 8630 3032 8616 3056 8589 3073 8608 $$ 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, 9:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 10:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 46 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.