Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 2:22 PM EST for Charlton County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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, 2:22 PM EST (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2000, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Charlton County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado F0 | St George, GA | Brief touchdown. Weak FO |
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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 52 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 301923 TORJAX GAC049-302000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 222 PM EST THU MAR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CHARLTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 300 PM EST * AT 220 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER CENTRAL CHARLTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF HILLIARD...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. $$ CARROLL
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, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 1:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 35 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.