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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 14, 1986Bacon County, Pierce County, Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 1986, 4:06 AM EST for Bacon County, Pierce County, Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 14, 1986, 4:06 AM EST (09:06 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 1986, 5:00 AM EST
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bacon County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Ware County, GA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1986-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 157 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1986-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
157 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
910 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 14, 3:40 AM EST, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
335 AM EST FRI MAR 14 1986

 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 35 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM...

AT 330 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS
STRETCHING FROM 30 MILES WEST OF WAYCROSS SOUTHWEST THROUGH VALDOSTA
TO NEAR DEADMAN BAY...WEST OF CROSS CITY. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS
SHOWN WERE WEST OF WAYCROSS GEORGIA WHERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNINGS
HAVE BEEN ISSUED. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING WEST OF
JACKSONVILLE.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD
MOVE OVER THE LIVE OAK AREA WITHIN THE HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BE ACCOMPANIED BY PERIODS OFj LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS..FREQUENT
LIGHTNING STRIKES..AND POSSIBLY HAIL.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 3:28 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAtkinson, Coffee32 min
Mar 14, 4:06 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling54 min
Mar 14, 5:36 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBulloch, Evans69 min
Mar 14, 6:45 AM ESTTornado WarningJAXAlachua, Bradford, Clay45 min
Mar 14, 7:10 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.