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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 2000, 4:28 PM EST for Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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
- Mar 16, 2000, 4:28 PM EST (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2000, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 162129 TORJAX TTAA00 KJAX 162128 GAC305-162215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 428 PM EST THU MAR 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES...GARDI...JESUP... * UNTIL 515 PM EST * AT 418 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCREVEN...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF PATTERSON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ODUM BY 435 PM EST... GARDI AND JESUP BY 445 PM EST... DOCTORTOWN BY 450 PM EST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO OCCURING WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT Y6OUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. CARROLL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 3:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Pierce, Ware | 28 min |
| Mar 16, 4:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Pierce | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 4:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Pierce, Wayne | 41 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.