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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 30, 2000Suwannee County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 2:04 PM EST for Suwannee County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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, 2:04 PM EST (19:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2000, 2:30 PM EST
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Suwannee County, FL

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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1322 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 229 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
1322 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
321 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
8.8

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The text

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

134 
WFUS52 KJAX 301904
TORJAX
FLC121-301930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SUWANNEE COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES LIVE OAK...

* UNTIL 230 PM EST

* AT 200 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF
  LIVE OAK...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LIVE OAK BY 210 PM EST...
  WELLBORN BY 230 PM EST...

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

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3040 8315 3022 8315 3020 8279 3038 8284

$$

MOBBS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
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, 1:21 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXNassau39 min
Mar 30, 1:40 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXBaker20 min
Mar 30, 1:55 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXDuval, Nassau35 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.