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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 2:31 PM EST for Suwannee County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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, 2:31 PM EST (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2000, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Suwannee County, FL
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:50 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Live Oak, FL | Large trees and power lines were blown down. 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 301932 TORJAX FLC121-302000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 231 PM EST THU MAR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL SUWANNEE COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES LIVE OAK... * UNTIL 300 PM EST * AT 220 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH OF LIVE OAK...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WELLBORN BY 250 PM EST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. $$ 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, 2:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 2:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Nassau | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.