Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 6:50 PM EDT for Camden County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 28, 2001, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Camden County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 28, 1:50 PM EDT, 5 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:50 PM EDT, 5 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 150 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO INCREASE AFTERNOON POPS. SOUTHWEST WINDS FROM THE GULF ARE PROVIDING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON... MAINLY OVER THE FL PORTION OF THE CWA. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF STORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS SW GA AND THE PANHANDLE. WITH GOOD AREA OF CU AND A FEW TSTMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG THE GULF COAST SEA BREEZE FRONT AND DRIFTED EASTWARD. AT THIS TIME THE AREA OF CU AND TSTMS CONTINUES TO WEAKEN SOME WHAT AS THEY MOVE INTO THE DRIER AIR. HOWEVER WITH AFTERNOON CAPE VALUES ABOVE 4000... EXPECT A FEW STRONG STORMS TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN THE 40 MPH RANGE. WITH WEAK HIGH PRESSURE REMAINING OVER THE GULF AND S FL... AND A WEAK FRONT JUST NORTH OF THE AREA THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. WE MAY SEE A BRIEF RETURN TO OUR NORMAL AFTERNOON SUMMER-LIKE PATTERN. ALSO WITH THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE COMBINING WITH THE WILDFIRE SMOKE... WE MAY NEED A SMOKE OR FOG ADVISORY TOMORROW MORNING. MARINE...SEAS IN THE 2 TO 4 FOOT RANGE. PRELIM AMG 67/88/65/88 2434 SSI 69/86/69/85 2434 JAX 68/92/70/89 2434 GNV 68/92t/69/89 2434 22 .JAX... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 45 min |
| May 28, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval | 41 min |
| May 28, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton, Ware | 44 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.