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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2000, 1:05 PM EDT for Clinch County, Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 min. 3 reports 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
- Apr 24, 2000, 1:05 PM EDT (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clinch County, GA, Ware County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Dupont, GA | Weak F0. Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| Apr 24, 1:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Homerville, GA | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| Apr 24, 1:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Manor, GA | Large trees were blown donw. |
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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 241706 TORJAX GAC065-299-241730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 105 PM EDT MON APR 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CLINCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES...ARGYLE...HOMERVILLE... CENTRAL WARE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 130 PM EDT * AT 100 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOMERVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HOMERVILLE BY NOW... ARGYLE BY 110 PM EDT... MANOR BY 115 PM EDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHERN FLORIDA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. $$ SANTOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 12:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Charlton, Ware | 35 min |
| Apr 24, 1:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Charlton, Ware | 23 min |
| Apr 24, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Ware | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn | 35 min |
| Apr 24, 2:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Glynn | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Charlton | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn | 53 min |
| Apr 24, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Echols | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Echols | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton, Ware | 36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.