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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 30, 2000Appling County, Pierce County, Wayne County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 7:59 AM EST for Appling County, Pierce County, Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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, 7:59 AM EST (12:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2000, 8:30 AM EST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Appling County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Wayne County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 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
Mar 30, 8:15 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Baxley, GA	Large trees and power lines were blown down. Some minor home damage.
Mar 30, 8:30 AM EST	Hail 1.75	Jesup, GA

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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 301300
TORJAX
GAC001-229-305-301330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
759 AM EST THU MAR 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN APPLING COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN PIERCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES PATTERSON...
  SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 830 AM EST

* AT 755 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF
  BRISTOL...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF PATTERSON...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PATTERSON BY 805 AM EST...
  SCREVEN BY 815 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, 7:27 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon	33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.