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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 30, 2000Charlton County, Georgia; Duval County, Nassau County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 1:55 PM EST for Charlton County, Georgia; Duval County, Nassau County, Florida. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2000, 1:55 PM EST (18:55 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2000, 2:30 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Duval County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Charlton County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 30, 12:15 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 2000-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 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 2000-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 384 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 301900 COR
TORJAX
FLC031-089-GAC049-301930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DUVAL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES...JACKSONVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...
  SOUTHERN NASSAU COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES CALLAHAN...
  SOUTH CENTRAL CHARLTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 230 PM EST

* AT 155 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A        
  TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF ST. GEORGE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES WEST OF     
  CALLAHAN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 230 PM EST...
  ST. GEORGE...
  BRYCEVILLE...
  CALLAHAN AND JACKSONVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA AN:D SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3058 8223 3040 8223 3028 8153 3068 8156

$$

CARROLL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 3:17 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClinch28 min
Mar 30, 5:30 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee30 min
Mar 30, 6:08 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBacon, Coffee37 min
Mar 30, 7:03 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis27 min
Mar 30, 7:27 AM ESTTornado WarningJAXBacon33 min
Mar 30, 7:59 AM ESTTornado WarningJAXAppling, Pierce, Wayne31 min
Mar 30, 8:20 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBacon, Coffee25 min
Mar 30, 8:27 AM ESTTornado WarningJAXWayne33 min
Mar 30, 8:47 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling, Bacon, Pierce28 min
Mar 30, 9:06 AM ESTTornado WarningJAXPierce, Wayne24 min
Mar 30, 9:32 AM ESTTornado WarningJAXWayne28 min
Mar 30, 10:52 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXJeff Davis33 min
Mar 30, 1:21 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXCharlton39 min
Mar 30, 1:30 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXCamden30 min
Mar 30, 2:22 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXCharlton38 min
Mar 30, 4:54 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval, Nassau36 min
Mar 30, 12:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXHamilton25 min
Mar 30, 12:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBaker, Columbia66 min
Mar 30, 12:40 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXColumbia, Hamilton35 min
Mar 30, 1:40 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXBaker20 min
Mar 30, 2:04 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXSuwannee26 min
Mar 30, 2:28 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXNassau32 min
Mar 30, 2:31 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXSuwannee29 min
Mar 30, 2:45 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXColumbia45 min
Mar 30, 2:56 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXDuval, Nassau34 min
Mar 30, 3:19 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXUnion41 min
Mar 30, 3:34 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXBradford26 min
Mar 30, 3:57 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXBradford, Clay48 min
Mar 30, 4:32 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXPutnam43 min
Mar 30, 4:43 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXClay32 min
Mar 30, 5:10 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXSaint Johns45 min
Mar 30, 5:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXFlagler39 min
Mar 30, 5:33 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXPutnam27 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.