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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 30, 2002Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT for Ware County, Georgia. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2002, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Ware County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 1063 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

083 
WUUS52 KJAX 302245
SVRJAX
GAC299-302330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
643 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL WARE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 643 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER   
  WARESBORO...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAYCROSS...MOVING  
  SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT 5 MPH.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...OR YOU CAN CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE DIRECTLY AT 904-741-4370 TO REPORT
SEVERE WEATHER.

$$

LAT...LON 3126 8262 3112 8250 3122 8234 3137 8249

BROYLES

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 30, 2:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 2:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
200 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2002

A LARGE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG NE FL ATLANTIC COAST THIS
MORNING HAS PROVIDED GOOD RAINFALL ACROSS FLAGLER... ST. JOHNS AND
EASTERN MARION COUNTIES. RADAR INDICATES AMOUNTS RANGED FROM 1/4 TO
3 INCHES.

WATER VAPOR IMAGE INDICATES SOME WHAT DRIER AIR MOVING INTO SE GA
AND SHOULD CONTINUE SOUTH ACROSS WESTERN (I-75) PORTION OF CWA IN FL
OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS.

EXTENDED... LITTLE CHANCE... CONTINUE AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORM
PATTER THROUGH THE NEXT SUNDAY WITH TEMPS A FEW DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.

MARINE...NO HEADLINES. WINDS LESS THAN 15 KTS AND SEAS LESS THAN 3
FEET NEXT 5 DAYS.

FIRE WX...NO CONCERNS.

PRELIM CCF
AMG EE 069/092 069/094 070 22--3
SSI EE 072/086 072/088 073 22--3
JAX BB 070/089 070/091 071 22443
SGJ BB 073/087 073/089 074 22443
GNV TT 069/089 069/091 070 22164
OCF TT 069/089 069/091 070 22477=

.JAX...
.GA...NONE.
.FL...NONE.

JOHNSON/BROYLES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clinch, Echols	51 min
Jun 30, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Wayne	50 min
Jun 30, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling	45 min
Jun 30, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Bacon, Coffee	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.