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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 13, 2002Putnam County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2002, 6:13 PM EDT for Putnam County, Florida. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2002, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Putnam County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1712 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1712 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 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.

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 132213
TORJAX
FLC107-132300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
612 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 612 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GEORGETOWN...DRIFTING 
  SOUTH. 

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 700 PM EDT...    
  NORTHWEST OF GEORGETOWN...

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 2937 8161 2937 8173 2942 8174 2943 8177
          2947 8177 2951 8184

PETERSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam, Saint Johns41 min
Jun 13, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXMarion51 min
Jun 13, 7:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXMarion41 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.