Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 2000, 2:56 PM EDT for Alachua County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 16, 2000, 2:56 PM EDT (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Alachua County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 3:06 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Gainesville, 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 nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2013 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 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 161856 TORJAX FLC001-161930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 256 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN ALACHUA COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 249 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORANGE HEIGHTS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WORTHINGTON SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IN A STURDY BUILDI-NG 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 10:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia | 42 min |
| Jul 16, 12:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 23 min |
| Jul 16, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Union | 43 min |
| Jul 16, 12:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Union | 31 min |
| Jul 16, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bradford | 41 min |
| Jul 16, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 43 min |
| Jul 16, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia | 25 min |
| Jul 16, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Union | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 45 min |
| Jul 16, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Union | 45 min |
| Jul 16, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bradford | 42 min |
| Jul 16, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 47 min |
| Jul 16, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 49 min |
| Jul 16, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Hamilton | 24 min |
| Jul 16, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Columbia, Union | 36 min |
| Jul 16, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Union | 44 min |
| Jul 16, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 47 min |
| Jul 16, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Gilchrist | 32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.