Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 41, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 2001, 6:13 PM EDT for Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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
- Sep 2, 2001, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Glynn County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1773 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
695 WFUS52 KJAX 022212 TORJAX GAC127-022300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 613 PM EDT SUN SEP 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN GLYNN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES...BRUNSWICK...COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES...DOCK JUNCTION... ST. SIMONS... * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 610 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRUNSWICK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 700 PM EDT... DOCK JUNCTION... BRUNSWICK... COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES... ST. SIMONS... SEA ISLAND... 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 3121 8162 3108 8158 3102 8115 3127 8117 $$ JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 7:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 52 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.