Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 40, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2001, 4:55 PM EDT for Camden County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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
- Sep 1, 2001, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2001, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Camden County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 4:56 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | St Marys, GA | Weak FO. Tops of trees damaged. |
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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 1840 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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.
294 WFUS52 KJAX 012055 TORJAX GAC039-012145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 455 PM EDT SAT SEP 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES...DUNGENESS...KINGS BAY BASE...ST. MARYS... * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 450 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF KINGS BAY BASE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 545 PM EDT... ST. MARYS... KINGS BAY BASE... DUNGENESS... 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 3088 8167 3070 8164 3072 8123 3096 8127 $$ WELSH
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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.