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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 30, 2000Clay County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 4:43 PM EST for Clay County, Florida. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2000, 4:43 PM EST (21:43 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2000, 5:15 PM EST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Clay County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 59 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 384 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 302146
TORJAX
FLC019-302215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 440 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SOUTH
  CENTRAL CLAY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF PALATKA...
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

RADAR ALSO INDICATED LARGE HAIL ALONG THE CLAY PUTNAM LINE 5 MILES
EAST OF MCRAE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST 
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAS|TERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

$$

CARROLL

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, 2:04 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXSuwannee26 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, 5:10 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXSaint Johns45 min
Mar 30, 5:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXFlagler39 min
Mar 30, 5:33 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXPutnam27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.