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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Jacksonville, FL

October 25, 1997Wayne County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 8:47 PM EDT for Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report 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: Oct 25, 1997, 8:47 PM EDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 25, 9:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Screvan, GA	Large trees and power lines were blown down. Two utility buildings were damaged.

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 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 Oct 25, 8:30 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 8:30 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
830 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997

BUSY WI SVR WX THIS EVE. CONCERNED ABOUT BNDRY COMING MY WAY FM TLH
AREA AND STG S-SW FLO DVLPG OFF GLF LATER TNGT. WL LEAVE POPS AS IS
AND MONITER. FIRST MCC IN GA MOVG THRU N CWA ATTM WI SVR WX AND SECOND
MCC MOVG THIS WAY. MAY NEED TO BUMP UP POPS. WL WATCH TEMPS BUT WL
LIKELY RAISE BASED ON CURRENT DWPTS NR 70.

FG SHUD NOT BE MUCH OF A PROBLEM TNGT WI TOO MUCH CLD CVR.

MAY BE OVERDOING WND A LTL OVR GAZ501 LATE TNGT. DO NOT SEE 20 KT WND
TIL SUNDAY. WHAT DO YOU THINK MIA?

MOHLIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 25, 9:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Bacon, Coffee	7 hr
Oct 25, 9:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Bacon, Coffee	6 hr
Oct 25, 11:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson	50 min
Oct 25, 11:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling	50 min
Oct 25, 11:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Ware	53 min
Oct 26, 3:02 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Coffee	7 hr
Oct 26, 2:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	55 min
Oct 26, 3:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson	62 min
Oct 26, 3:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Bacon, Ware	55 min
Oct 26, 4:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon	66 min
Oct 26, 4:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling	60 min
Oct 26, 4:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson	69 min
Oct 26, 4:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Wayne	62 min
Oct 26, 4:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clinch, Ware	70 min
Oct 26, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Brantley	61 min
Oct 26, 5:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Pierce	68 min
Oct 26, 5:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Glynn	58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.