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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 15, 2000Glynn County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2000, 11:03 AM EDT for Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 2000, 11:03 AM EDT (15:03 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2000, 11:30 AM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Glynn County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:05 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 2000-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 308 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 2000-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 151505
TORJAX
GAC127-151530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1103 AM EDT MON MAY 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL GLYNN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES ST. SIMONS...

* UNTIL 1130 AM EDT

* AT 1053 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED    
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR SEA ISLAND...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1130 AM EDT...
  SEA ISLAND...GOULDS INLET...

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.

LAT...LON 3132 8123 3131 8144 3115 8142 3110 8139
          3100 8138 3102 8117D

$$

WELSH/SANDRIK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 8:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden47 min
May 14, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden45 min
May 15, 10:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXGlynn30 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.