Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1997, 4:04 PM EDT for Gilchrist County, Florida. It was in force for 56 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
- Jun 26, 1997, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1997, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gilchrist County, FL
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KNIP), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 26, 3:13 PM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:13 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Marion | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Putnam | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 3:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Marion | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Flagler | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.