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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 13, 2001Camden County, Charlton County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 2001, 5:24 AM EST for Camden County, Charlton County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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: Mar 13, 2001, 5:24 AM EST (10:24 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2001, 6:15 AM EST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:28 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 51 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 369 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1304 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

600 
WFUS52 KJAX 131025
TORJAX
GAC039-049-131115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
524 AM EST TUE MAR 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  NORTHEASTERN CHARLTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 615 AM EST

* AT 518 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOMELAND...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF FOLKSTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 615 AM EST...
   ...WOODBINE...

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. OR YOU CAN ALSO CALL
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DIRECTLY AT 904-741-4370 TO REPORT
SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3094 8210 3079 8197 3085 8159 3111 8171

$$

WELSH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 3:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden	38 min
Mar 13, 4:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton	48 min
Mar 13, 4:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton	48 min
Mar 13, 4:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clinch, Echols	43 min
Mar 13, 4:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Ware	43 min
Mar 13, 4:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton, Ware	46 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.