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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 1, 1995Duval County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1995, 8:24 PM EDT for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1995, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Duval County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1995-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1604 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1604 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAX 020024
TORJAX
FLC031-020130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
824 PM EDT THU JUN 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ...
 
IN NORTH FLORIDA
 
   ...WESTERN DUVAL COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE SPOTTED ON THE WEST SIDE NEAR CECIL FIELD AT 824 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS..~.
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 8:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXNassau64 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.