Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT for Clay County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1994, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 425 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 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 022115 TORJAX FLC019-022145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 515 PM EDT SAT JUL 2 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE FL HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT ... IN NORTH FLORIDA ...CLAY COUNTY AT 510 PM EDT...CLAY COUNTY SHERRIFS OFFICE REPORTED AT TODNADO SIGHTING ON STATE ROAD 21...8 MILES NORTH OF KEYSTONE HEIGHTS. THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA ARE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SOME DAMAGE TO TREES WAS REPORTED IN THE AREA OF THIS TORNADO SIGHTNING. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. &
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 2, 3:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
FLZ036-037-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 324 PM EDT SAT JUL 2 1994 AT 320 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS SOME STRONG EXTENDING FROM JUST WEST OF GAINESVILLE SOUTHEAST INTO CENTRAL MARION COUNTY MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE GAINESVILLE AREA WITHIN THE HOUR AND INTO PUTNAM COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 2 HOURS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLY STRONG GUSTY WIND AND HAIL. $&gf6WWUS tE6WWUS TBq`WWUS _66WWUSd X( WUUS P WUUS m WUUS lK0 WUUS df6WWUS o6WWUS djWWUS \!`WWUS ,H6WWUS: b16WWUS@ h_6WWUSX <sF6WWUSh \s6WWUS^ _( WUUS" XWOUS^ R6WWUSn @o6WWUS }z6WWUS \JJJ& FFG A 7>LBq`WWUS _66WWUSd X( WUUS P WUUS ^A`WWUS jy6 4 E6WWUS TH6WWUS: \!`WWUS ,_6WWUSX <\s6WWUS^ _( WUUS" XWOUS^ R6WWUSn @Z&6WWUSp H6WWUSL FTUWp
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
FLZ036-037-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 324 PM EDT SAT JUL 2 1994 AT 320 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS SOME STRONG EXTENDING FROM JUST WEST OF GAINESVILLE SOUTHEAST INTO CENTRAL MARION COUNTY MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE GAINESVILLE AREA WITHIN THE HOUR AND INTO PUTNAM COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 2 HOURS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLY STRONG GUSTY WIND AND HAIL. $&gf6WWUS tE6WWUS TBq`WWUS _66WWUSd X( WUUS P WUUS m WUUS lK0 WUUS df6WWUS o6WWUS djWWUS \!`WWUS ,H6WWUS: b16WWUS@ h_6WWUSX <sF6WWUSh \s6WWUS^ _( WUUS" XWOUS^ R6WWUSn @o6WWUS }z6WWUS \JJJ& FFG A 7>LBq`WWUS _66WWUSd X( WUUS P WUUS ^A`WWUS jy6 4 E6WWUS TH6WWUS: \!`WWUS ,_6WWUSX <\s6WWUS^ _( WUUS" XWOUS^ R6WWUSn @Z&6WWUSp H6WWUSL FTUWp
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.