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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2001, 5:32 PM EDT for Flagler County, Putnam County, Florida. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 15, 2001, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Flagler County, FL, Putnam County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 871 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 152133 TORJAX FLC035-107-152200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 532 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN FLAGLER COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES ANDALUSIA... EASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES...CRESCENT CITY...EAST PALATKA...PALATKA...POMONA PARK... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 523 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CRESCENT CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 600 PM EDT... CRESCENT CITY... ANDALUSIA... POMONA PARK... SATSUMA... VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THE PARENT STORM. IF OUTDOORS... STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 2934 8163 2940 8144 2987 8159 2979 8186 $$ CARROLL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Putnam | 50 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.