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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2000, 5:18 PM EDT for Echols County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report 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, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Echols County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 5:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Statenville, 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 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 242119 TORJAX GAC101-242145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 518 PM EDT MON APR 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ECHOLS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES STATENVILLE... * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 511 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STATENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... STATENVILLE BY 510 PM EDT... MAYDAY BY 525 PM EDT... NEEDMORE BY 550 PM EDT... THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IN A STURDY BUILDING MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. $$ BAILEY
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, 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, 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.