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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 11, 2000Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 5:54 PM EDT for Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 11, 2000, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Ware County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.9 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: 727 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 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 112154
SVRJAX
GAC299-112230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
554 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 554 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL WARE
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF STEVEN FOSTER STATE PARK...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

HAIL...INTENSE LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS
ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL
THE STORM PASSES.



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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 11, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
240 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2000

CURRENTLY...WATER VAPOR LOOPS SHOW THAT SEVERAL SHORT WAVES CONTINUE
TO RIDE OVER THE UPPER RIDGE OVER THE CENTER OF THE U. S. AND MOVE
SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY AND MID-ATLANTIC STATES. AT THE
SURFACE A TROUGH WAS WORKING ITS WAY ACROSS SOUTHEAST ACROSS
SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA AND NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA. THE MODELS ARE IN
GENERAL AGREEMENT AND CONTINUE TO BUILD THE RIDGE OVER THE WESTERN
AND CENTRAL PORTION OF THE COUNTRY...WITH SEVERAL SHORT WAVES
DROPPING SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA AND NORTHEASTERN
FLORIDA OVER THE NEXT 36 TO 48 HOURS. THE AVN SEEMS TO OVER THE
SHORT WAVE WHICH MOVES THROUGH THE AREA THURSDAY AFTERNOON SO WILL
USE THE ETA AND NGM FOR THIS PACKAGE.

PRELIM
AMG 72/96/73/93 3533
SSI 75/94/75/89 2534
JAX 75/97/75/93 2433
GNV 72/97/73/93 1324 33

.JAX...
.GA...NONE
.FL...NONE3

SCOTT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 1:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-112130-

NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
100 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2000

SCATTERED SHOWERS ALONG WITH A FEW ISOLATED EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS
WILL MOVE OVER SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THIS ACTIVITY WILL
SPREAD TOWARD THE FLORIDA/GEORGIA BORDER. IN ADDITION...SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THE HEAT OF THE AFTERNOON
OVER THE NORTHERN FLORIDA PENINSULA. THE STORMS WILL BE MORE
NUMEROUS FROM INTERSTATE 75 EAST TO U S 17. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT
FORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT
CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS.

THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP TODAY ARE EXPECTED TO BE BELOW SEVERE
CRITERIA AND ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWSJAX.NOAA.GOV.

RAM

Local storm report, Jul 11, 2:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE, FL
231 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0205 PM    WOODBINE                  GA   WIND DAMAGE
07/11/00   CAMDEN                         TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 110

MZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden	47 min
Jul 11, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clinch, Echols	41 min
Jul 11, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton	47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.