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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 30, 2000Putnam County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 5:33 PM EST for Putnam County, Florida. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2000, 5:33 PM EST (22:33 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2000, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Putnam County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 302233
TORJAX
FLC107-302300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES...EAST PALATKA...INTERLACHEN...PALATKA...

* UNTIL 600 PM EST

* AT 525 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FLORAHOME...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MELROSE...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  FLORAHOME AND INTERLACHEN BY 535 PM EST...
  HOLLISTER BY 545 PM EST...
  EAST PALATKA AND ORANGE MILLS BY 605 PM EST...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY1
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 2978 8199 2961 8203 2951 8156 2973 8152

$$

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, 2:31 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, 5:10 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Saint Johns	45 min
Mar 30, 5:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler	39 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.