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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 11, 1995, 1:45 PM EDT for Saint Johns County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 1995, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 1995, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Johns County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 922 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Sep 11, 9:59 AM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 9:59 AM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 957 AM EDT MON SEP 11 1995 SFC ANALYSIS SHOWING FRONT FROM NEAR CHS TO NORTH OF MCN AND PROGGED AT PRESENT TO MOVE TO NEAR JAX AND S GA 12Z TUE. SOME CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH IT ON SATELLITE ACROSS CAROLINAS AND NOT MOVING TOO FAR SOUTHWARD ATTM. HOWEVER SHOWERS AND TSMS CONTINUE OFF NE FL COAST WITH A FEW NOW MOVING ONSHORE NEAR ST AUGUSTINE. WITH EASTERLY FLOW SETTING UP WILL CONTINUE SCENERO OF GRADUALLY INCREASING POPS...ESP ALONG COAST...NEXT 3 PERIODS. PETERSON
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 11, 10:35 AM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1035 AM EDT MON SEP 11 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
411 PM RIVERDALE FL DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED.
09/09/95 ST JOHNS
445 PM SAN MATEO FL FATALITY (MALE) TO BOATER
09/09/95 PUTNAM ON ST JOHNS RIVER FROM
LIGHTNING.
PETERSONLocal storm report, Sep 11, 10:39 AM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1035 AM EDT MON SEP 11 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
411 PM RIVERDALE FL DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED.
09/09/95 ST JOHNS
445 PM SAN MATEO FL FATALITY (MALE) TO BOATER
09/09/95 PUTNAM ON ST JOHNS RIVER FROM
LIGHTNING.
PETERSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 12:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 34 min |
| Sep 11, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.