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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 3, 1991Putnam County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 1991, 10:27 AM EST for Putnam County, Florida. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 1991, 10:27 AM EST (15:27 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 1991, 11:00 AM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Putnam County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 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.

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: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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, 5:43 AM EST, 4 hours 44 minutes before

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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, 3:43 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Appling, Tattnall	47 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
Mar 3, 9:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Putnam	60 min
Mar 3, 10:08 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Saint Johns	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.