Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 9:06 AM EST for Pierce County, Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 30, 2000, 9:06 AM EST (14:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2000, 9:30 AM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pierce County, GA, Wayne County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:06 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 301406 TORJAX GAC229-305-301430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 906 AM EST THU MAR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN PIERCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES PATTERSON... SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 930 AM EST * AT 902 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF BRISTOL...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF PATTERSON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BRISTOL BY 855 AM EST... PATTERSON BY 905 AM EST... SCREVEN BY 910 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, 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, 9:32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.