Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2000, 7:33 PM EDT for Alachua County, Florida. It was in force for 12 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
- Jul 7, 2000, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Alachua County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 957 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 072334 TORJAX FLC001-072345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 733 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN ALACHUA COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 726 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF ALACHUA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF GAINESVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NEWBERRY AND ALACHUA THROUGH 735 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. LAT...LON 2954 8245 2978 8247 2979 8266 2954 8265 $$ SANDRIK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Flagler | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Marion, Putnam | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 6:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Alachua, Putnam | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 44 min |
| Jul 7, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Gilchrist | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.