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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 15, 2001Pierce County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2001, 11:15 AM EST for Pierce County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2001, 11:15 AM EST (16:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2001, 11:45 AM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Pierce County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 15, 7:00 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 477 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 419 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 7.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 151615
TORJAX
GAC229-151645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1115 AM EST THU MAR 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PIERCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES...BLACKSHEAR...PATTERSON...

* UNTIL 1145 AM EST

* AT 1110 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER BLACKSHEAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1145 AM EST...
  BLACKSHEAR

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM EST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS ISN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM EST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR NORTHERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.


$$

ZIBURA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 8:02 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson	58 min
Mar 15, 8:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	65 min
Mar 15, 8:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Coffee	63 min
Mar 15, 9:18 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon	27 min
Mar 15, 9:21 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Appling	29 min
Mar 15, 9:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Wayne	37 min
Mar 15, 9:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Clinch	47 min
Mar 15, 10:08 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Ware	42 min
Mar 15, 10:51 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Ware	24 min
Mar 15, 11:02 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Pierce	43 min
Mar 15, 2:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden, Glynn	47 min
Mar 15, 3:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton, Clinch, Ware	45 min

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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.