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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Jacksonville, FL

April 24, 2000Brantley County, Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2000, 1:55 PM EDT for Brantley County, Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. 5 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, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Glynn County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 24, 1:59 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Hoboken, GA
Apr 24, 2:20 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Waverly, GA	Weak F0. Large limbs were blown down.
Apr 24, 2:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Brunswick, GA
Apr 24, 2:38 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Brunswick, GA
Apr 24, 2:40 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Brunswick, GA	Weak F0. Large trees 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 24, 1:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 241756
TORJAX
GAC025-039-127-241830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
155 PM EDT MON APR 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BRANTLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES...HOBOKEN...NAHUNTA...
  NORTHWESTERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  GLYNN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES...BRUNSWICK...COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES...DOCK JUNCTION...
  JEKYLL ISLAND...ST. SIMONS...

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 151 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF HICKOX...OR ABOUT 10 MILES   SOUTHEAST OF 
  HOBOKEN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RAYBON BY 200 PM EDT...
  WAYNESVILLE BY 210 PM EDT...
  WAVERLY BY 215 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, 1:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Clinch, Ware	25 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, 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.