Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 5:10 PM EST for Saint Johns County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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, 5:10 PM EST (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2000, 5:55 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Johns County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 302212 TORJAX FLC109-302255- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 510 PM EST THU MAR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ST. JOHNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES...CRESCENT BEACH...HASTINGS...ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH... * UNTIL 555 PM EST * AT 505 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HASTINGS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 545 PM EST... HASTINGS... y ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH AND ST. AUGUSTINE SHORES... BUTLER BEACH AND CRESCENT BEACH... 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, 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, 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, 5:21 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.