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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 31, 1993Camden County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 1993, 12:42 PM EST for Camden County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 31, 1993, 12:42 PM EST (17:42 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 1993, 1:30 PM EST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Camden County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 261 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1993-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 708 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1993-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 298 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
708 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
298 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
402 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
8.2

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 2:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClay, Saint Johns58 min
Mar 31, 3:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAlachua, Bradford, Clay, Putnam63 min
Mar 31, 5:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam32 min
Mar 31, 11:03 AM ESTTornado WarningJAXClinch, Echols42 min
Mar 31, 12:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden46 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.