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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 27, 2001Camden County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2001, 1:25 PM EDT for Camden County, Georgia. It was in force for 20 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
May 27, 2001, 1:25 PM EDT (17:25 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2001, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
20 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 17:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 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 2001-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1218 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 27, 9:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
945 AM EDT SUN MAY 27 2001

CURRENTLY...SATELLITE WATER VAPOR AND IR IMAGERY SHOWED A MID TO
UPPER LEVEL JET ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA. THERE ALSO APPEARED TO
BE A WEAK MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE SWINGING ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA. MSAS
ANALYSIS SHOWED A SURFACE TROUGH AND AN AREA OF MID CLOUDS ACROSS
THAT AREA. THIS MAY SET OFF SOME SHOWERS ACROSS OUR SOUTHEASTERN
GEORGIA ZONES THIS AFTERNOON SO WILL KEEP AN EYE ON HOW THINGS
DEVELOP. IN THE MEAN TIME ONLY MINOR OR NO CHANGES TO THE CURRENT
ZONE PACKAGE.

MARINE...ONLY MINOR CHANGES ANTICIPATED.

.JAX...
.FL...NONE.
.GA...NONE.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 12:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley, Glynn48 min
May 27, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXGlynn41 min
May 27, 1:59 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXCamden46 min
May 27, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden25 min

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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.