Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2002, 8:15 AM EST for Appling County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 days. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 2002, 8:15 AM EST (13:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 42 days
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Appling County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 3:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Broxton, GA | Large trees down across power lines with power lines downed. |
| Dec 24, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado F0 | Nicholls, GA | Brief touchdown. Trees and power poles snapped off with power lines downed. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 7:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 2355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
230 WFUS52 KJAX 121315 TORJAX GAC001-121415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 815 AM EST TUE NOV 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... APPLING COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 915 AM EST * AT 808 AM EST EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAXLEY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALMA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 915 AM EST... BAXLEY... THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 3181 8248 3167 8240 3182 8211 3190 8231 $$ CAMP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 7:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 7 hr |
| Nov 12, 8:00 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 7 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.