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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 27, 2000Clinch County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2000, 4:38 PM EST for Clinch County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min. 2 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
Mar 27, 2000, 4:38 PM EST (21:38 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 2000, 5:15 PM EST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Clinch County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 27, 4:45 PM ESTHail 1Homerville, GA
Mar 27, 4:45 PM ESTHail 1Homerville, GA

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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 2000-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 73 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2000-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
73 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 272139
TORJAX
GAC065-272215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
438 PM EST MON MAR 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLINCH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 436 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF DU PONT...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOMERVILLE...
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HOMERVILLE BY 445 PM EST...

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.


$$

CARROLL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 4:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClinch, Ware50 min
Mar 27, 4:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCharlton43 min
Mar 27, 5:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden38 min
Mar 27, 6:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCharlton, Ware38 min
Mar 27, 6:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden, Charlton46 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.