Tornado Warning 25, NWS Jacksonville, FL

Issued

Oct 7, 1996, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)

Expired

Oct 7, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT

In force

69 min

Issued by

NWS Jacksonville, FL

Area

Whole counties

County Marion County, FL

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KJAX 071908
TORJAX
FLC083-072015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
306 PM EDT MON OCT 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ...
 
IN NORTH FLORIDA
 
   ...MARION COUNTY
 
AT 305 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO IN SOUTHWEST MARION COUNTY. THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM
WILL MOVE INTO THE OCALA AREA BETWEEN 320 AND 340 PM AND THEN INTO THE
CITRA AND REDDICK AREAS BY 4 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
SANDRIK/JOHNSON

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Oct 7, 3:16 AM EDT, 11 hours 50 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
300 AM EDT MON OCT 7 1996

PERIODS OF MDT/HVY CONT TO ADVECT ONSHORE OVR NE FL. DUE TO HEAVY
AMTS OF PCPN PAST FEW DAYS...OUR CWAS ARE GETTING PRETTY SATURATED.
88D INDICATING STEADY FETCH OF PCPN WILL CONT THEREFORE HAVE ISSUED
FFA FOR 5 OF OUR CTYS OVR NE FL.
MORE RAIN ON THE WAY WITH WITH APPCH OF JOSEPHINE. SHOULD SEE SOME
DAYLIGHT BY THE END OF FCST PD...BUT NOT UNTIL THEN.

PRELIM
SSI RR 072/068 076/064 03++7
JAX RR 075/070 079/068 03++7
GNV RR 076/071 080/065 03+96

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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.