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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 6, 2000Camden County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2000, 12:30 PM EDT for Camden County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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
Sep 6, 2000, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 2000, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Camden County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 2000-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 529 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 2000-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 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
529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 061632
TORJAX

GAC039-061700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1230 PM EDT WED SEP 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS                         
  INCLUDES...DUNGENESS...KINGS BAY BASE...KINGSLAND...ST. MARYS...

* UNTIL 100 PM EDT

* AT 1221 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER DUNGENESS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 100 PM EDT...
  ST MARYS.

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.

$$
LAT...LON 3067 8150 3072 8137 3098 8155 3083 8178

SHASHY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 9:35 AM EDTTornado WarningJAXGlynn25 min
Sep 6, 12:06 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXCamden24 min
Sep 6, 12:58 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXCamden32 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.