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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 5, 1989Duval County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1989, 1:18 PM EDT for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 1989, 1:18 PM EDT (17:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1989, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Duval County, FL

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 1:24 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Duval, FL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 19 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: 514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAX 051730
TORJAX
FLC031-051745-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
118 PM EDT MON JUN 5 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTH FLORIDA
          ...DUVAL
 
AT 125 PM EDT...A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED TO THE NORTHWEST OF WHITEHOUSE
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 3:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Putnam	25 min
Jun 5, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay	30 min
Jun 5, 4:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Clay, Saint Johns	25 min
Jun 5, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Duval, Nassau	45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.