Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2002, 2:31 PM EDT for Marion County, Florida. It was in force for 59 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2002, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2002, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Marion Oaks, FL | Trees snapped and twisted. Numerous trees down. |
| Jun 22, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunnellon, FL | Numerous trees blown down. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 221831 TORJAX FLC083-221930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 229 PM EDT SAT JUN 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN MARION COUNTY IN NORTHERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 224 PM EDT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT RELAY A REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RAINBOW LAKES ESTATES...MOVING SLOWLY NORTHWEST AT 15 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 2909 8250 2901 8230 2927 8200 2942 8233 WELSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 11:13 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval, Putnam, Saint Johns | 4 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Marion | 81 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.