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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 28, 1995Duval County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1995, 5:09 PM EDT for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1995, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Duval County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2413 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 1995-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2413 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAX 282109
TORJAX
FLC031-282145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
509 PM EDT WED JUN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ...
 
IN NORTH FLORIDA
 
   ...DUVAL COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS.
 
 
AT 5:05 PM A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO VORTEX IN THE VICINITY
OF FT. CAROLINE AND UNIVERSITY BLVD...THIS TORNADO HAD DOWNED TREES
AND WAS HEADING IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION...
 
 
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.
 
 
WELSH
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXFlagler58 min
Jun 28, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval, Nassau69 min
Jun 28, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClay66 min
Jun 28, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBradford48 min
Jun 28, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam69 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.