Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT for Clay County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 13, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2001, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clay County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1548 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 132201 TORJAX FLC019-132245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 600 PM EDT FRI JUL 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES LAKESIDE... * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 551 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOCTORS INLET...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKESIDE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 645 PM EDT... DOCTORS INLET AND LAKESIDE... INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THE PARENT STORM. IF OUTDOORS... STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSBED. LAT...LON 3015 8170 3013 8203 2991 8196 2994 8168 $$ SHASHY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 52 min |
| Jul 13, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval, Saint Johns | 34 min |
| Jul 13, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 35 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.