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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 3:57 PM EST for Bradford County, Clay County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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, 3:57 PM EST (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2000, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 4:35 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Keystone Hgts, FL | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 67 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 302059 TORJAX FLC007-019-302145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 357 PM EST THU MAR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA EASTERN BRADFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 445 PM EST * AT 350 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SAMPSON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF RAIFORD... MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 445 PM EST... SAMPSON... STARKE... KINGSLEY... HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THE PARENT STORM. IF OUTDOORS... STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLEK. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. $$ CARROLL
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, 2:31 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, 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.