Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 7:27 AM EST for Bacon County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- Mar 30, 2000, 7:27 AM EST (12:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2000, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bacon County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:28 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma, GA | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| Mar 30, 7:37 AM EST | Tornado F0 | Alma, GA | Destroyed one mobile home, two others were damaged. |
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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 471 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
015 WFUS52 KJAX 301227 TORJAX GAC005-301300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 727 AM EST THU MAR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BACON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES ALMA... * UNTIL 800 AM EST * AT 723 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALMA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ALMA BY 745 AM EST... VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. $$ SANTOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 5:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 6:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 7:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 7:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Pierce, Wayne | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 8:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 8:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 8:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Pierce | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 9:06 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Pierce, Wayne | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 9:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 10:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 1:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 39 min |
| Mar 30, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 1:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 35 min |
| Mar 30, 2:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 38 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.