Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2001, 6:25 PM EDT for Saint Johns County, Florida. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2001, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Saint Johns County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 1306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 302228 TORJAX FLC109-302315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 625 PM EDT WED MAY 30 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN ST. JOHNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES GUANA RIVER STATE PARK... * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 625 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES OR NEAR INTERSTATE 95 AND STATE ROAD 210 ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GUANA RIVER STATE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 715 PM EDT... DURBIN... SOUTH PONTE VEDRA BEACH... GUANA RIVER STATE PARK... REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...OR YOU CAN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DIRECTLY AT 904-741-4370 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3008 8156 2992 8148 2996 8123 3021 8131 $$ WELSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 45 min |
| May 30, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Flagler | 48 min |
| May 30, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Gilchrist | 46 min |
| May 30, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 41 min |
| May 30, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Gilchrist | 49 min |
| May 30, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.