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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 1:30 PM EST for Camden County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2000, 1:30 PM EST (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2000, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Camden County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 1:46 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | St Marys, GA | Damage to one home... roof and car port. Powerlines were blown down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 12:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 471 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 301830 TORJAX FLC089-GAC039-301900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 130 PM EST THU MAR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL NASSAU COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES FERNANDINA BEACH... SOUTHEASTERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES...DUNGENESS...KINGS BAY BASE...ST. MARYS... * UNTIL 200 PM EST * AT 125 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF ST. MARYS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... YULEE BY 125 PM EST... KINGS BAY BASE AND ST. MARYS BY 130 PM EST... FERNANDINA BEACH AND DUNGENESS BY 135 PM EST... LAT...LON 3081 8162 3063 8163 3057 8102 3080 8100 $$ WELSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 5:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 6:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 7:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 7:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 7:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Pierce, Wayne | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 8:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 8:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 8:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Pierce | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 9:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Pierce, Wayne | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 9:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 10:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 1:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 1:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 2:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.