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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 16, 2000Clinch County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 7:21 PM EDT for Clinch County, Georgia. 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
Jun 16, 2000, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Clinch County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 2000-06-16Temperature 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1000 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 16, 3:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
305 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

SEA BREEZE INDICATED WELL ON VISIBLE...MOVING NORTHWEST WITH
THUNDERSTORMS STARTING TO FORM. GULF MOISTURE PUMPING INTO PANHANDLE
WHERE MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS BEEN ALL
MORNING. RIDGE REMAINS IN PLACE.

MODELS INITIALIZE WELL AND AGREE FOR THE MOST PART. NOT MUCH CHANGE
FOR THE WEEKEND AS PREVIOUS DAYS. PERSISTENCE CONTINUES. RIDGE/HIGH
PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE REMAINS OVER THE ATLANTIC AND UPPER
RIDGE/HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS OVER THE AREA AS WELL. WITH NO SYNOPTIC
SCALE FEATURES NEARBY...CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE TO BE DUE TO SEA
BREEZE ACTIVITY. PLACEMENT OF THE SURFACE HIGH WILL ALLOW SOUTH AND
SOUTHEAST WINDS TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. ETA AND NGM
CONTINUE TO INDICATE DRYING...WITH AVN MOIST THROUGH THE ATMOS
THROUGH 30 HOURS. STILL 20 TO 30 POPS LOOK GOOD THROUGH THE WEEKEND
WHICH IS A BLEND OF THE AVN (WET) AND THE NGM (DRY) AS RIDGE SHIFTS
WESTWARD SOME.

MODEL TEMPS CLOSE AND SEE NO REASON NOT TO BLEND WHERE NEEDED.

MARINE...WITH RIDGE SHIFTING...BUT STILL ORIENTED E-W...WINDS WILL
PICK UP TONIGHT. WILL START OFF WITH 15 KNOTS AND INCREASE TO 15 TO
20 KNOTS LATE TONIGHT. THANKS MLB FOR COORD.

AMG 70/92/70/91 3322
SSI 75/87/74/86 2222
JAX 71/91/71/91 2222
GNV 70/92/70/92 3332 11

.JAX...
.GA...NONE.
.FL...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXHamilton48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.