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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1997, 5:51 PM EDT for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 39 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 27, 1997, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duval County, FL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 1370 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJAX 272151 RRA TORJAX FLC031-272230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 551 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH FLORIDA ...DUVAL COUNTY AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS. AT 645 PM EDT A NAVAL WEATHER OBSERVER REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUGH AT INTERSTATE 295 AND RIVERSIDE AVENUE AREA. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE SAN MARCO AND ARLINGTON AREAS. ADDITIONALLY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHSIDE AND BEACHES AREAS THROUGH 630 PM EDT. 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 BOD.Y. AVOID WINDOWS. MOHLIN/SANDRIK &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay | 56 min |
| May 27, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Putnam, Saint Johns | 49 min |
| May 27, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Suwannee | 67 min |
| May 27, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Flagler | 56 min |
| May 27, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 64 min |
| May 27, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Hamilton | 56 min |
| May 27, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Marion | 53 min |
| May 27, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay | 49 min |
| May 27, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Suwannee | 59 min |
| May 27, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 42 min |
| May 27, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Columbia | 34 min |
| May 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Bradford, Union | 60 min |
| May 27, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Gilchrist | 67 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.