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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 1991, 3:43 AM EST for Appling County, Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 1991, 3:43 AM EST (08:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 1991, 4:30 AM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Appling County, GA, Tattnall County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAV 030844 TORSAV GAC001-267-030930- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 343 AM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAVANNAH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WA
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 3, 12:23 AM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
FLZ008-007-009-GAZ013-015-030715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1220 AM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH #26 IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 500 AM... ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR DIXIE...LEVY...TAYLOR...GILCHRIST... ALACHUA...UNION...LAFAYETTE...AND THE SOUTHERN HALF OF SUWANNEE AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES... ...A GALE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS FROM SAVANNAH SOUTH TO ST AUGUSTINE AND THE GULF COASTAL WATERS FROM VENICE NORTH TO APPALACHICOLA... ...A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR AREA LAKES... ...A HIGH WIND WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA... AT 1220 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF GEORGIA AND ACROSS THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AREA AND PANHANDLE. MOST OF THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO. IN GEORGIA A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BRUNSWICK AND HEAVY SHOWERS WERE LOCATED NORTHEAST OF VALDOSTA. AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO NORTHEAST FLORIDA LATER THIS MORNING THEY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING TORNADOES. LATER IN THE DAY WINDS WILL PICK UP ACROSS NORTHEAST FLORIDA...POSSIBLY CAUSING DAMAGE FROM WEAKENED TREES. RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA ARE URGED TO REMAIN ALERT TO THIS SITUATION AND PLAN ACCORDINGLY. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR HEARD ...OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 2:20 AM EST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
FLZ008-007-009-GAZ013-015-030915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 220 AM EST SUN MAR 3 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH #26 IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 500 AM... ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR DIXIE...LEVY...TAYLOR...GILCHRIST... ALACHUA...UNION...LAFAYETTE...AND THE SOUTHERN HALF OF SUWANNEE AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES... ...A GALE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS FROM SAVANNAH SOUTH TO ST AUGUSTINE AND THE GULF COASTAL WATERS FROM VENICE NORTH TO APPALACHICOLA... ...A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR AREA LAKES... ...A HIGH WIND WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA... AT 220 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF GEORGIA AND ACROSS NORTH FLORIDA FROM THE SUWANNEE RIVER WEST INTO THE PANHANDLE. A FEW SHOWERS HAVE DEVELOPED IN SUWANNEE AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES AND MOVED INTO THE OKEFENOKEE SWAMP AND NORTHWEST NASSAU COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTH GEORGIA...MAINLY BETWEEN ALMA AND VALDOSTA. IN FLORIDA THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM MADISON WEST TO TALLAHASSEE AND PANAMA CITY AND INTO THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO. AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO NORTHEAST FLORIDA LATER THIS MORNING THEY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING TORNADOES. LATER IN THE DAY WINDS WILL PICK UP ACROSS NORTHEAST FLORIDA...POSSIBLY CAUSING DAMAGE FROM WEAKENED TREES. RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA ARE URGED TO REMAIN ALERT TO THIS SITUATION AND PLAN ACCORDINGLY. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR HEARD...OR IF A WANRNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 4:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bulloch, Evans | 53 min |
| Mar 3, 5:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Lowndes | 58 min |
| Mar 3, 5:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Lowndes | 58 min |
| Mar 3, 6:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Brantley, Pierce, Ware | 68 min |
| Mar 3, 7:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Long, McIntosh, Wayne | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 7:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn | 55 min |
| Mar 3, 7:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 7:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bryan, Liberty | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 7:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Chatham | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 1:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Long, Wayne | 43 min |
| Mar 3, 1:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bryan, Liberty | 43 min |
| Mar 3, 2:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Chatham, Effingham | 40 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.