Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1994, 5:32 PM EDT for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1994, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1994, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duval County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 072132 TORJAX FLC031-072200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 532 PM EDT TUE JUN 7 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT ... IN NORTH FLORIDA ...EASTERN DUVAL COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS ALONG THE NORTHEAST FLORIDA COAST AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 530 PM LOCAL TELEVISION METEOROLOGIST RECIEVED A REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD AT BEACH BLVD AND HODGES ROAD MOVING TO THE EAST RAPIDLY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER dYOUR 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 7, 4:54 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
FLZ025-032-033-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 454 PM EDT TUE JUN 7 1994 AT 450 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE WESTSIDE OF JACKSONVILLE NEAR I10 AND I295 TO STARKE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. DURING THE PAST HOUR WIND GUST TO 43 MPH WERE REPORTED AT CECIL FIELD ON THE JACKSONVILLE WESTSIDE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLE HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATLY.
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 4:55 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
FLZ025-032-033-072300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 454 PM EDT TUE JUN 7 1994 AT 450 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE WESTSIDE OF JACKSONVILLE NEAR I10 AND I295 TO STARKE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. DURING THE PAST HOUR WIND GUST TO 43 MPH WERE REPORTED AT CECIL FIELD ON THE JACKSONVILLE WESTSIDE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNIN~G STRIKES...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLE HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATLY.
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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.