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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 2000, 4:54 PM EDT for Columbia County, Union County, Florida. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2000, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, FL, Union County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 162054 TORJAX FLC023-125-162130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 454 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL COLUMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA UNION COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES LAKE BUTLER... * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 444 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LULU...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF WORTHINGTON SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LULU BY 455 PM EDT... LAKE BUTLER BY 530 PM EDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ PETERSO N
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, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Alachua | 34 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.