Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 4:41 PM EDT for Ware County, Georgia; Baker County, Florida. It was in force for 49 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 14, 2000, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baker County, FL, Ware County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1040 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 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 142042 SVRJAX FLC003-GAC299-142130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 441 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BAKER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA SOUTHEASTERN WARE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 441 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF TAYLOR...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF FARGO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TAYLOR BY 515 PM EDT... INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLYUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. $$ PETERSON
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 14, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 225 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 CURRENT...A WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWED THAT THE SHORT WAVE OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA AND SOUTHERN ALABAMA WAS CONTINUING TO DROP SOUTH. THE CONVECTION WHICH BEGIN OVER THE BIG BEND AREA CONTINUED TO SPREAD EAST WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING ACROSS MARION AND ALACHUA COUNTIES...AND A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ALONG THE COAST. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED A FRONT ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL ALABAMA WITH A WEAK SURFACE LOW OVER THE NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AREA. THE MODELS ARE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT AND THEY PUSH THE WEAK FRONT/TROUGH SOUTH OF THE AREA TONIGHT AND SATURDAY WITH THE WEST COAST SEABREEZE BECOMING THE PRIMARY WEATHER MAKER THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WITH SHORT WAVE OVER SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND CENTRAL GEORGIA CONTINUING TO SWEEP SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...WHILE GOING WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY. NO POPS FOR SUNDAY. WESTERLY FLOW SO WILL GO WITH MID AND UPPER 90S FOR AFTERNOON HIGHS...LOWER 90S COAST AND UPPER 60S TO MID 70S FOR OVERNPIGHT LOWS. PRELIM AMG 70/97/68/95 2000 SSI 74/92/73/92 2000 JAX 74/96/72/95 3211 GNV 75/93/72/95 3312 33 .JAX... .GA...NONE .FL...NONE SCOTT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 11:55 AM EDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-142230- NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1155 AM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 THE COMBINATION OF SUFFICIENT ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY ALONG WITH DAYTIME HEATING WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR OVER THE NORTHERN FLORIDA PENINSULA. A FEW STORMS MAY BE STRONG ESPECIALLY TO THE SOUTH OF BELL...STARKE AND ST AUGUSTINE. STORMS WHICH DO DEVELOP WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE EAST AROUND 15 MPH. STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. ALTHOUGH A FEW STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING STRONG... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWSJAX.NOAA.GOV. RAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.