Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 15, 1988, 4:28 PM EDT for Putnam County, Florida. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1988, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1988, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, FL
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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval | 67 min |
Nearby
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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.