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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 22, 1997Marion County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1997, 7:31 PM EDT for Marion County, Florida. It was in force for 44 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 22, 1997, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1997, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 264 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

156 
WFUS1 KJAX 222332 RRA
TORJAX
FLC083-230015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
731 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH FLORIDA
 
   ...EASTERN MARION COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM EDT THE MARION COUNTY SHERRIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO EAST
OF EUREKA IN EASTERN MARION COUNTY. THE TORNADO IS MOVING SOUTH AT 15
MPH AND WILL PASS INTO WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE OCALA NATIONAL FOREST
NORTH OF HIGHWAY 40 BY 800 PM.
 
PERSONS NEAR CEDAR CREEK...LAKE CHARLES...AND LAKE EATON SHOULD SEEK
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
 
LETRO

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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.