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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 20, 2000Hamilton County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 2:46 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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 20, 2000, 2:46 PM EDT (18:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2000, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 2000-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1777 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 2000-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
1777 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1377 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 20, 10:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 10:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns49 min
Jul 20, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSuwannee39 min
Jul 20, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSuwannee38 min
Jul 20, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAlachua, Gilchrist33 min
Jul 20, 4:20 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXSuwannee25 min
Jul 20, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns29 min
Jul 20, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAlachua47 min
Jul 20, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClay, Putnam51 min
Jul 20, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXColumbia47 min
Jul 20, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBaker, Bradford39 min
Jul 20, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam30 min
Jul 20, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClay47 min
Jul 20, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXFlagler27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.