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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1993, 5:38 PM EDT for Baker County, Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1993, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1993, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baker County, FL, Duval County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 1106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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.
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, Jul 6, 3:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
FLZ008-009-062015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 311 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 1993 WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN WESTERN ST. JOHNS COUNTY AND NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY. SEVERAL LIGHTNING INDUCED GRASS FIRES HAVE BEEN REPORTED WEST OF I-95 NEAR SR 207 OF ST. JOHNS COUNTY. PEA SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN PUTNAM COUNTY NEAR GRANDIN 5 MILES EAST OF THE CLAY COUNTY BORDER. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH PALATKA SHORTLY AND TOWARDS GAINESVILLE IN THE NEXT HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS SO MORE GRASS FIRES CAN BE EXPECTED UNDER THESE DRY CONDITIONS. GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL SHOULD ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. &
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 3:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
FLZ008-009-062015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 311 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 1993 WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN WESTERN ST. JOHNS COUNTY AND NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY. SEVERAL LIGHTNING INDUCED GRASS FIRES HAVE BEEN REPORTED WEST OF I-95 NEAR SR 207 OF ST. JOHNS COUNTY. PEA SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN PUTNAM COUNTY NEAR GRANDIN 5 MILES EAST OF THE CLAY COUNTY BORDER. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH PALATKA SHORTLY AND TOWARDS GAINESVILLE IN THE NEXT HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS SO MORE GRASS FIRES CAN BE EXPECTED UNDER THESE DRY CONDITIONS. GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL SHOULD ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Gilchrist | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 7:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Suwannee | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 7:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 7:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Baker | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley | 68 min |
| Jul 6, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Liberty | 55 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.