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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 28, 1996Charlton County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 12:53 PM EDT for Charlton County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 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: May 28, 1996, 12:53 PM EDT (16:53 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Charlton County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 1717 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 28, 9:44 AM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 9:44 AM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
942 AM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM S GA INTO WEST CENTRAL FL MOVING EAST AND SHOULD
BE FOCUS FOR AFT CONVECTION IN SE GA AND NE FL ESP AFTER HEATING BEGINS.
THIS COUPLED WITH ACTIVE WEST COAST SEABREEZE SHOULD PRODUCE ROUND OF
AFT STRONG STORMS. STORMS IN COFFEE COUNTY THIS AM HAD IMPRESSIVE SHEAR
VALUES BUT NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER. PREVIOUS FCST OF TEMPS/POPS
LOOK GOOD.

PETERSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 8:43 AM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-501-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-
501-501-281530-

NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
825 AM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN GEORGIA...

ENERGY IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE MOVING THROUGH PARTS
OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS MORNING AND INTERACTING WITH A MOIST AND
UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. THIS IS PROVIDING ENERGY FOR STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING RAPIDLY INTO SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS MORNING
...MAINLY IN COFFEE...BACON...APPLING...AND JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES.

THEN THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE
ATLANTIC SEA BREEZE AND THE GULF OF MEXICO SEA BREEZE ALONG WITH
LEFTOVER ENERGY IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL CAUSE SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND NORTHEAST
FLORIDA.

THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL CAUSE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF
VERY HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS TO AT LEAST 40 MPH.

WELSH

Special weather statement, May 28, 11:31 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-501-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-
501-501-281815-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK UPDATE TWO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1119 AM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTH GEORGIA/NORTH FLORIDA...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
WHICH INCLUDES...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND ALL NORTHEAST FLORIDA
COUNTIES...EXCEPT FLAGLER AND MARION COUNTIES.

A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT IS PROVIDING ENERGY FOR STRONG TO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND NORTH FLORIDA.

TWO LINES OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA.  THE
FIRST LINE IS THE STRONGEST AND PROGRESSING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH
FROM A LINE EXTENDING FROM BRUNSWICK TO NEAR VALDOSTA.  THE SECOND
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING NORHTEAST AT 25 MPH AND IS
EXTENDING FROM LAKE CITY THROUGH GAINESVILLE.

THESE LINES WILL CONVERGE NEAR THE OKEEFENOKEE SWAMP BY 1230 PM.

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL CAUSE CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

WELSH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 12:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Baker	62 min
May 28, 1:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Duval, Nassau	58 min
May 28, 1:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Saint Johns	69 min
May 28, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Marion	42 min
May 28, 8:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	53 min
May 28, 11:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Ware	42 min
May 28, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden	62 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.