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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Jacksonville, FL
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 12:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 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.
- 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
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.
| 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, 1:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Baker | 20 min |
| Mar 30, 1:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.