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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 7, 2000Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 5:10 PM EDT for Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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: Jul 7, 2000, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Ware County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KJAX 072110
SVRJAX
GAC299-072200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
ISSUED BY TALLAHASSEE FL
510 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WARE COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 509 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 9 MILES EAST
  OF SUNNYSIDE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLACKSHEAR...MOVING
  SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SUNNYSIDE BY 520 PM EDT
  DEENWOOD...WAYCROSS BY 525 PM EDT

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.



JAMSKI
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, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 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 30 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, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Brantley, Pierce	27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.