Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2001, 1:59 PM EDT for Camden County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2001, 1:59 PM EDT (17:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2001, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 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 18:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:16 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Colesburg, GA | Few trees damaged. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 271759 TORJAX GAC039-271845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 159 PM EDT SUN MAY 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES HIGH POINT... * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 152 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HIGH POINT...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEKYLL ISLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 245 PM EDT... HIGH POINT... THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ PETERSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn | 48 min |
| May 27, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 20 min |
| May 27, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn | 41 min |
| May 27, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.