Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2001, 8:57 AM EST for Atkinson County, Coffee County, Georgia. It was in force for 63 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 15, 2001, 8:57 AM EST (13:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2001, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atkinson County, GA, Coffee County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 7:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 477 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KJAX 151402 SVRJAX GAC003-069-151500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 857 AM EST THU MAR 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ATKINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA SOUTHERN COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1000 AM EST * AT 857 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILLACOOCHEE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1000 AM EST... WILLACOOCHEE... DOUGLAS... NICHOL~LS AND WEST GREEN... A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. $$ ZIBURA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 8:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 58 min |
| Mar 15, 8:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 65 min |
| Mar 15, 9:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon | 27 min |
| Mar 15, 9:21 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling | 29 min |
| Mar 15, 9:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Wayne | 37 min |
| Mar 15, 9:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 10:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 10:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 24 min |
| Mar 15, 11:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Pierce | 43 min |
| Mar 15, 11:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Pierce | 30 min |
| Mar 15, 2:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden, Glynn | 47 min |
| Mar 15, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton, Clinch, Ware | 45 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.