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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 7, 2000Appling County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 5:40 PM EDT for Appling County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Appling County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 7, 6:00 PM EDTHail 0.75Baxley, GA

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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 2000-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 957 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
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 072140
SVRJAX
GAC001-072215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED PART OF COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
ISSUED BY CHARLESTON SC
540 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  APPLING COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 539 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR BETHEL 
AND 6 MILES WEST OF BAXLEY...BOTH MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  BAXLEY.
  SURRENCY.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

$$

LAT...LON 3183 8252u 3166 8245 3172 8214 3195 8223

RVT
NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden30 min
Jul 7, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden30 min
Jul 7, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWayne31 min
Jul 7, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley, Pierce27 min
Jul 7, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWare50 min

Nearby

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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.