Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 5:03 PM EDT for Brantley County, Pierce County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2000, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brantley County, GA, Pierce County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 5:25 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Blackshear, GA | Weak FO. Damages a shed and chicken-house. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 957 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KJAX 072104 SVRJAX GAC025-229-072130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL ISSUED BY CHARLESTON SC 503 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BRANTLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. SOUTHERN PIERCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. * UNTIL 530 PM EDT. * AT 503 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF HOBOKEN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLACKSHEAR...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... HOBOKEN. BLACKSHEAR. HAIL TO ONE INCH AND 65 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. $$ LAT...LON 3122 8200 3138 8211 3127 8235 3110 8218 RVT NNNN
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 Jul 7, 3:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 310 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000 CURRENTLY...JUST A QUICK AFD TO ALERT OUR BACKUP OFFICES THAT HP WILL BE WORKING ON OUR AWIPS TODAY. HOPEFULLY THE OPERATION WILL NOT TAKE TO LONG...HOWEVER WILL CALL EACH OFFICE AND KEEP THEM UPDATED ON THE SITUATION. WILL UPDATE AND SEND OUT ALL LONG FUSED PRODUCTS THAT NEED TO BE SENT OUT BEFORE TURNING THE SYSTEM OVER TO HP. PRELIM AMG v69/91/68/90 0200 SSI 75/88/72/87 2200 JAX 74/90/72/91 2210 GNV 70/94/69/92 3122 33 .JAX... .GA...NONE .FL...NONE SCOTT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 11:40 AM EDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-072000- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1140 AM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... ...HOT TEMPERATURES AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON... A WEAK SURFACE BACK DOOR FRONT WILL BE MOVING SOUTH ACROSS NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT...A MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS...AND HOT AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING. ALSO...AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL REACH THE UPPER 90S ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH FLORIDA...WITH 90 TO 95 DEGREES EXPECTED NEAR THE COAST. THESE HIGH TEMPERATURES IN COMBINATION WITH HIGH HUMIDITY CAN BE DANGEROUS FOR PEOPLE WORKING OR PLAYING OUTDOORS. IF ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES...TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS FROM THE HEAT. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AIR CONDITIONED FACILITIES AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE JACKSONVILLE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWSJAX.NOAA.GOV.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Wayne | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 35 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.