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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2001, 2:57 PM EDT for Clay County, Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 48 min. 3 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2001, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2001, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clay County, FL, Duval County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Orange Park, FL | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| Jun 11, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Jacksonville, FL | Weak F0 tornado. A Jacksonville man was crushed to death in his living room. The home located in the 2300 block of Somerset Road received significant damage when sycamore tree smashed through the roof. Trees and power lines were blown down through out the area |
| Jun 11, 3:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Arlington, FL |
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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 856 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
624 WFUS52 KJAX 111857 TORJAX FLC019-031-111945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 257 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES...LAKESIDE...ORANGE PARK... CENTRAL DUVAL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES...ARLINGTON...DOWNTOWN JACKSONVILLE... * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 253 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF LAKESIDE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 345 PM EDT... DOCTORS INLET AND MIDDLEBURG... LAKESIDE... ORANGE PARK... NORMANDY AND ORTEGA... RIVERSIDE... DOWNTOWN JACKSONVILLE AND SAN MARCO... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER. LAT...LON 3016 8204 3003 8189 3029 8152 3044 8172 $$ JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 52 min |
| Jun 11, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Flagler | 28 min |
| Jun 11, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Nassau | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Putnam | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.