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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 13, 1997Glynn County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 1997, 6:52 PM EST for Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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
Feb 13, 1997, 6:52 PM EST (23:52 UTC)
Expired
Feb 13, 1997, 7:15 PM EST
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Glynn County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 235 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1997-02-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1997-02-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
524 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.

000 
TTAA00 KJAX 132359 RRA
TORJAX
GAC127-140015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
652 PM EST THU FEB 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN GLYNN COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS.
 
 
AT 655 PM WEATHER SEVERICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
MOVING EAST THROUGH THE GOLDEN ISLES.
 
 
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 CL OSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
 
WELSH/MOBBS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 13, 6:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden60 min
Feb 13, 6:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXGlynn65 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997

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.