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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 6, 1996Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 4:14 PM EST for Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 1996, 4:14 PM EST (21:14 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1996, 5:00 PM EST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Ware County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 1996-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 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 1996-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-306 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 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 
WUUS1 KJAX 062115 RRA
SVRJAX
GAC299-062200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
414 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ...
 
IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN WARE COUNTY
 
AT 410 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN WARE COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF
SEVERE WIND DAMAGE.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
KUYPER/WELSH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 2:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling36 min
Mar 6, 2:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee57 min
Mar 6, 3:29 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXCoffee31 min
Mar 6, 3:33 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXBacon42 min
Mar 6, 3:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAtkinson, Coffee66 min
Mar 6, 3:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling63 min
Mar 6, 4:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPierce58 min
Mar 6, 4:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWayne57 min
Mar 6, 4:44 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXWayne61 min
Mar 6, 4:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley66 min
Mar 6, 5:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAtkinson58 min
Mar 6, 5:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXGlynn62 min
Mar 6, 5:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWare68 min
Mar 6, 6:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley68 min
Mar 6, 6:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXGlynn69 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.