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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 3, 2001Coffee County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2001, 7:11 PM EST for Coffee County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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 3, 2001, 7:11 PM EST (00:11 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 2001, 8:00 PM EST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Coffee County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 3, 7:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 00:00Z on 2001-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 71 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1421 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 040013
TORJAX
GAC069-040100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
711 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES...AMBROSE...BROXTON...DOUGLAS...

* UNTIL 800 PM EST

* AT 708 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO ASSOCIATED WITH A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
  EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES WEST OF AMBROSE TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
  DOUGLAS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  AMBROSE BY 730 PM EST...
  PRIDGEN BY 745 PM EST...
  BROXTON BY 750 PM EST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST SATURDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

$$

CARROLL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 7:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXJeff Davis46 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.