Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2000

Tornado Warning 34, NWS Jacksonville, FL

April 24, 2000Echols County, Georgia; Columbia County, Hamilton County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2000, 6:21 PM EDT for Echols County, Georgia; Columbia County, Hamilton County, Florida. It was in force for 24 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: Apr 24, 2000, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Columbia County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Echols County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 24, 6:50 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	White Spgs, FL
Apr 24, 6:55 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Five Pts, FL

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
Apr 24, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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-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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 242222
TORJAX
FLC023-047-GAC101-242245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA
  NORTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA
  SOUTHEASTERN ECHOLS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 616 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY...OR
  ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FARGO...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

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, 5:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Echols	27 min
Apr 24, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton, Ware	36 min
Apr 24, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Nassau	46 min
Apr 24, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Baker, Columbia	39 min
Apr 24, 5:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Baker, Columbia	33 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2000 Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2000 Every tornado warning in 2000 Tornadoes in 2000

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.