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Tornado Warning 94, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 1:58 PM EST for Franklin County, Florida. 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
- Nov 24, 2004, 1:58 PM EST (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Franklin County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 241859 TORTAE FLC037-241930- /X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0072.041124T1858Z-041124T1930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 158 PM EST WED NOV 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CARRABELLE * UNTIL 230 PM EST * AT 153 PM EST(1253 PM CST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARRABELLE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CARRABELLE BY 210 PM EST... RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM EST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. LAT...LON 2974 8486 2970 8476 2997 8446 3000 8480 $$ 10-BOLINSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 10:28 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 47 min | |
| Nov 24, 10:52 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 11:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 46 min |
| Nov 24, 11:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 34 min |
| Nov 24, 11:48 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 57 min | |
| Nov 24, 12:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 26 min |
| Nov 24, 12:23 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 37 min | |
| Nov 24, 12:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 26 min |
| Nov 24, 12:56 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Nov 24, 3:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Nov 24, 3:00 PM EST | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.