Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1993, 5:21 PM EDT for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1993, 5:21 PM EDT (21:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1993, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duval County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 930 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAX 222123 TORJAX FLC031-222200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 521 PM EDT TUE JUN 22 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT ... IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA ...DUVAL COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA AT 515 PM EDT...2 REPORTS WERE RECEIVED BY TV12 OF A TORNADO IN DUVAL COUNTY ON THE WESTSIDE NEAR EDGEWOOD AVE. AND I95. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA ARE DRIFTING NORTH AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SP^OT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
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, Jun 22, 2:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
FLZ008-007-009-222045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 245 PM EDT TUE JUN 22 1993 .........THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA......... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL BRING SOME MUCH NEEDED RAINFALL TO THE AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE STRONGEST IN WESTERN ALACHUA COUNTY WEST OF GAINESVILLE...NORTHEAST OF GAINESVILLE...AT AND SOUTH OF PALATKA AND ALONG THE FLORIDA-GEORGIA BORDER WEST OF FERNANDINA BEACH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVNG NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. LIGHTNING IS ALWAYS ONE OF THE MAJOR HAZARDS WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN FLORIDA AND WITH WOODLANDS AS DRY AS THEY ARE FOREST FIRES ARE POSSIBLE WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. RESIDENTS IN RURAL FLORIDA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SMOKE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS...THIS MAY BE THE ONLY WARNING THAT A FIRE HAS STARTED NEARBY.
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
FLZ008-007-009-222045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 245 PM EDT TUE JUN 22 1993 .........THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA......... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL BRING SOME MUCH NEEDED RAINFALL TO THE AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE STRONGEST IN WESTERN ALACHUA COUNTY WEST OF GAINESVILLE...NORTHEAST OF GAINESVILLE...AT AND SOUTH OF PALATKA AND ALONG THE FLORIDA-GEORGIA BORDER WEST OF FERNANDINA BEACH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVNG NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. LIGHTNING IS ALWAYS ONE OF THE MAJOR HAZARDS WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN FLORIDA AND WITH WOODLANDS AS DRY AS THEY ARE FOREST FIRES ARE POSSIBLE WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. RESIDENTS IN RURAL FLORIDA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SMOKE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS...THIS MAY BE8 THE ONLY WARNING THAT A FIRE HAS STARTED NEARBY.
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:40 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
FLZ008-009-222245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 440 PM EDT TUE JUN 22 1993 .........STRONG THUNDERSTORTMS MOVING INTO PUTNAM COUNTY........ WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN MARION COUNTY DRIFTING NORTH AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN PUTNAM AND ALACHUA COUNTIES IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. ANOTHESTRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ON THE ST. JOHNS RIVER ALONG THE CLAY/ST. JOHNS COUNTY LINE JUST SOUTH OF ORANGE PARK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DRIFTING NORTH AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES IN ST. JOHNS COUNTY CAUSED BRUSH FIRES NEAR STATE ROAD 206 THIS AFTERNOON. LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FIRES UNDER THESE DRY CONDITIONS. BOATERS ON THE ST. JOHNS RIVER NEAR ORANGE PARK SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AS THESE THUNDRSTORMS DRIFT INTO THEIR AREA IN THE NEXT HOUR. & WOUS01KAWN ,'pA
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:43 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
FLZ008-009-222245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 440 PM EDT TUE JUN 22 1993 .........STRONG THUNDERSTORTMS MOVING INTO PUTNAM COUNTY........ WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN MARION COUNTY DRIFTING NORTH AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN PUTNAM AND ALACHUA COUNTIES IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. ANOTHESTRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ON THE ST. JOHNS RIVER ALONG THE CLAY/ST. JOHNS COUNTY LINE JUST SOUTH OF ORANGE PARK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DRIFTING NORTH AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES IN ST. JOHNS COUNTY CAUSED BRUSH FIRES NEAR STATE ROAD 206 THIS AFTERNOON. LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FIRES UNDER THESE DRY CONDITIONS. BOATERS ON THE ST. JOHNS RIVER NEAR ORANGE PARK SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AS THESE THUNDRSTORMS DRIFT INTO THEIR AREA IN THE NEXT HOUR. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Columbia, Suwannee | 25 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.