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Tornado Warning 96, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 22, 2004Bay County, Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 22, 2004, 9:59 PM CST for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 31 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: Dec 22, 2004, 9:59 PM CST (03:59 UTC)
Expired: Dec 22, 2004, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bay County, FL, 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
Dec 22, 7:05 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 230401
TORTAE
FLC005-131-230430-
/X.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0075.041223T0359Z-041223T0430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
959 PM CST WED DEC 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL BAY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA
  SOUTHEASTERN WALTON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST

* AT 1057 PM EST(957 PM CST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTH OF GRAYTON BEACH...OR
  ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF SANTA ROSA BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SEASIDE...GRAYTON BEACH...BLUE MOUNTAIN BEACH AND BLUE GULF        
  BEACH BY 1010 PM CST...
  SEACREST AND SEAGROVE BEACH BY 1015 PM CST...  
  ROSEMARY BEACH...INLET BEACH...CHOCTAW AND BUNKER BY 1020 PM       
  CST...  
  OLD BAY VIEW BY 1025 PM CST...
  SEMINOLE HILLS BY 1030 PM CST...

WATERSPOUTS AND TORNADOES MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED DAMAGE AS THEY MOVE ONSHORE. IF 
YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...PLEASE GO TO A SAFE PLACE 
IMMEDIATELY.

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

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3034 8620 3040 8612 3042 8613 3056 8602
      3047 8588 3045 8596 3041 8599 3040 8598
      3040 8589 3044 8582 3040 8576 3027 8595

$$

10-BOLINSKI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 22, 7:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	40 min
Dec 22, 9:09 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		51 min

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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.