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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 7:16 PM EDT for Marion County, Florida. It was in force for 44 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, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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, 7:24 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange Spgs, FL | Roof blown was blown of a house at 107th Av. and 157 Ln. |
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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 072318 SVRJAX FLC083-080000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 716 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN MARION COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 716 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MCINTOSH...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CITRA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH CITRA AND MCINTOSH BY 720 PM EDT... FLEMINGTON AND REDDICK BY 740 PM EDT... ANTHONY AND LOWELL BY 755 PM EDT... OCALA AND OCALA AIRPORT BY 800 PM EDT... VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. $$ MOBBS
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, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:10 PM EDT, 4 hours 6 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
Local storm report, Jul 7, 5:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
515 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM PALM COAST FL WIND DAMAGE
07/07/00 FLAGLER LARGE TREE AND SEVERAL
SMALL TREES BLOWN DOWN.
0420 PM FLAGLER BEACH FL .88 INCH HAIL
07/07/00 FLAGLER
0430 PM DUPONT FL WIND DAMAGE
07/07/00 FLAGLER TWO LARGE TREES AND SEVERAL
A SMALL TREES BLOWN DOWN.
TROUTMANLocal storm report, Jul 7, 6:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
614 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM ST. MARY'S FL WIND DAMAGE
07/07/00 CAMDEN SEVERAL LARGE TREES
DOWN ON NEW POINT PETER
Y RD PER EMA
EVTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Flagler | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Marion, Putnam | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 6:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Alachua, Putnam | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 7:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Alachua | 12 min |
| Jul 7, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Gilchrist | 52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.