Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2002, 1:30 PM EST for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 42 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 2002, 1:30 PM EST (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 42 days
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Duval County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.
753 WFUS52 KJAX 121830 TORJAX FLC031-121915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 130 PM EST TUE NOV 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DUVAL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 215 PM EST * AT 129 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORMANDY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF ORANGE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 215 PM EST... NORMANDY AND ORTEGA... DOWNTOWN JACKSONVILLE... 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. 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 3021 8196 3020 8171 3042 8147 3047 8176 $$ WELSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | 47 min | |
| Nov 12, 2:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Hamilton | 10 hr |
| Nov 12, 2:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Hamilton, Suwannee | 10 hr |
| Nov 12, 3:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | 56 min | |
| Nov 12, 3:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | 46 min | |
| Nov 12, 11:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | 46 min | |
| Nov 12, 11:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Baker | 42 days |
| Nov 12, 12:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Alachua | 27 min |
| Nov 12, 12:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | 32 min | |
| Nov 12, 1:07 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 113 min | |
| Nov 12, 1:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | 22 min | |
| Nov 12, 2:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 41 min |
| Nov 12, 2:41 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 2 hr |
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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.