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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 27, 2000Clinch County, Echols County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 2000, 2:10 PM EST for Clinch County, Echols County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 27, 2000, 2:10 PM EST (19:10 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 2000, 2:45 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clinch County, GA, Echols County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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 (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 2000-02-27Temperature 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 2000-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 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 
WUUS52 KJAX 271911
SVRJAX
GAC065-101-271945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
210 PM EST SUN FEB 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLINCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  ECHOLS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 245 PM EST

* AT 210 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 9 MILES EAST OF MAYDAY...OR
  ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOMERVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEEDMORE BY 220 PM EST...


PETERSON/SHASHY
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 2:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCharlton, Ware29 min
Feb 27, 3:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden, Glynn49 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.