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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2000, 2:15 PM EDT for Duval County, Saint Johns County, Florida. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 2000, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Duval County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 061816 TORJAX FLC031-109-061900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 215 PM EDT WED SEP 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DUVAL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES...ARLINGTON...ATLANTIC BEACH...JACKSONVILLE BEACH... UNF... EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL ST. JOHNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES...PALM VALLEY...PONTE VEDRA BEACH... * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 211 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER UNF...MOVING NORTH 5 MPH. THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IN A STURDY BUILDING 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. LAT...LON 3041 8158 3024 8166 3012 8143 3034 8131 $$ SCOTT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 11:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval | 38 min |
| Sep 6, 11:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Duval | 27 min |
| Sep 6, 1:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Duval | 50 min |
| Sep 6, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Bradford, Union | 43 min |
| Sep 6, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 62 min |
| Sep 6, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 67 min |
| Sep 6, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval | 35 min |
| Sep 6, 7:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clay, Putnam | 65 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.