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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 28, 1996Marion County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1996, 2:38 PM EST for Marion County, Florida. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports 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
Mar 28, 1996, 2:38 PM EST (19:38 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1996, 3:45 PM EST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 28, 2:45 PM ESTHail 1.5Lynne, FL
Mar 28, 3:15 PM ESTHail 0.75Lake Weir, FL

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 239 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
398 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 8:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAlachua, Gilchrist, Marion67 min
Mar 28, 2:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns41 min
Mar 28, 3:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam57 min
Mar 28, 4:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns38 min
Mar 28, 6:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.