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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 5, 1995Glynn County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1995, 8:02 AM EDT for Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 1995, 8:02 AM EDT (12:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1995, 8:31 AM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Glynn County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 8:30 AM EDT	Tornado F1	S Brunswick, GA	Glynn County Sheriff's Office confirmed a tornado touched down at the intersection of Gloucester Street and U.S. Highway 17. Several trees were knocked down, but there was no extensive damage.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1098 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 5.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAX 051202
TORJAX
GAC127-051300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
802 AM EDT MON JUN 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ...
 
IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...GLYNN COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS.
 
AT 800 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO IN EASTERN GLYNN COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILE NORTH OF
BRUNSWICK. THE STORM WILL MOVE NORTHWARD BETWEEN US 17 AND I-95
OVER THE NEXT 45 MUNITES TO HOUR.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO RA 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.
 
SANDRIK/WELSH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 3:57 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden	63 min
Jun 5, 4:10 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Pierce, Ware	65 min
Jun 5, 4:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Glynn	64 min
Jun 5, 5:02 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon	58 min
Jun 5, 5:32 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden, Glynn	58 min
Jun 5, 6:25 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Glynn	65 min
Jun 5, 3:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Glynn	40 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.