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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 12, 1995Gilchrist County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1995, 5:22 PM EDT for Gilchrist County, Florida. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1995, 5:22 PM EDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Gilchrist County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 63 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 164 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
63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAX 122123
TORJAX
FLC041-122230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
522 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ...
 
IN NORTH FLORIDA
 
   ...GILCHRIST COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM EDT WEATHER DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
ASSOCIATED WITH A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE COUNTY.
THE STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE ALONG STATE ROAD 26 INTO TRENTON.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 10:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXLafayette57 min
May 12, 12:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAlachua61 min
May 12, 1:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns66 min
May 12, 2:00 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJAXColumbia6 hr
May 12, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXHamilton2 hr
May 12, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns65 min
May 12, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSuwannee55 min
May 12, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXColumbia69 min
May 12, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBaker61 min
May 12, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns65 min
May 12, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam61 min
May 12, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam75 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.