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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Jacksonville, FL

November 7, 1995Duval County, Saint Johns County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 1995, 9:14 PM EST for Duval County, Saint Johns County, Florida. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 7, 1995, 9:14 PM EST (02:14 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 1995, 10:15 PM EST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Duval County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 1290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 312 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.7
Supercell composite: 12.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAX 080227
TORJAX
FLC031-109-080315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
914 PM EST TUE NOV 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS S...
 
IN NORTH FLORIDA
 
   ...DUVAL COUNTY...ST. JOHNS COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS.
 
 
AT 915 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO BETWEEN SR-301
AND COUNTY HIGHWAY 301 IN EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN DUVAL COUNTY. THE STORM W
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL TRACK ACROSS NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY INTO
ORANGE PARK BY 925 PM AND OVER THE PONTE VERDA AREA BY 950 PM.
 
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 BUILDI\NG OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 7:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee	58 min
Nov 7, 7:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Baker, Nassau	69 min
Nov 7, 8:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Duval	56 min
Nov 7, 8:36 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Columbia, Union	54 min
Nov 7, 9:04 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bradford, Clay	56 min
Nov 7, 9:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Alachua, Gilchrist	74 min
Nov 7, 10:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay	42 min
Nov 7, 11:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua	45 min
Nov 7, 11:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler	58 min
Nov 7, 11:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Putnam	45 min
Nov 7, 11:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Marion	75 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.