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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 30, 2000Baker County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 1:40 PM EST for Baker County, Florida. It was in force for 20 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2000, 1:40 PM EST (18:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2000, 2:00 PM EST
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Baker County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 30, 2:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor, FL	Large trees and power lines 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 301841
TORJAX
FLC003-301900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
140 PM EST THU MAR 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BAKER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 200 PM EST

* AT 135 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF TAYLOR...OR ABOUT 21 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF FARGO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 200 PM EST...
  SANDERSON AND TAYLOR...
  MACCLENNY...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA AND SO{UTHEAST GEORGIA.

$$

CARROLL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 4:54 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Duval, Nassau	36 min
Mar 30, 12:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Hamilton	25 min
Mar 30, 12:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Baker, Columbia	66 min
Mar 30, 12:40 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton	35 min
Mar 30, 1:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Nassau	39 min
Mar 30, 1:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Duval, Nassau	35 min
Mar 30, 2:04 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Suwannee	26 min
Mar 30, 2:28 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Nassau	32 min
Mar 30, 2:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Suwannee	29 min
Mar 30, 2:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Columbia	45 min
Mar 30, 2:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Duval, Nassau	34 min
Mar 30, 3:19 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Union	41 min
Mar 30, 3:34 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bradford	26 min
Mar 30, 3:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bradford, Clay	48 min
Mar 30, 4:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Putnam	43 min
Mar 30, 4:43 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Clay	32 min
Mar 30, 5:10 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Saint Johns	45 min
Mar 30, 5:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler	39 min
Mar 30, 5:33 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Putnam	27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.