Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 10:38 AM EST for Bacon County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 min. 5 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
- Dec 24, 2002, 10:38 AM EST (15:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 11:45 AM EST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bacon County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 10:40 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 58 E | Countywide, GA | Numerous trees and power lines down across county. Several barns lost roofs due to straight line winds. Winds estimated by EMA. |
| Dec 24, 10:50 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma, GA | Several barns lost roofs. |
| Dec 24, 10:55 AM EST | Tornado F0 | Alma, GA | House damaged by 16 inch diameter tree. Numerous trees down. 2 mile long path about 100 yards wide. |
| Dec 24, 10:55 AM EST | Tornado F0 | Alma, GA | Numerous trees snapped off and down along Hwy 23. |
| Dec 24, 11:00 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Alma, GA | Large trees down across highway or damaged along Hwy 23 north of Alma |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 9:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
482 WFUS52 KJAX 241538 TORJAX GAC005-241645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1038 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BACON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1145 AM EST * AT 1032 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF ALMA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1145 AM EST... ALMA... 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. 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. $$ SHASHY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 10:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 97 min |
| Dec 24, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 30 min |
| Dec 24, 10:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 67 min |
| Dec 24, 10:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch | 32 min |
| Dec 24, 10:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Ware | 90 min |
| Dec 24, 10:50 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling | 100 min |
| Dec 24, 11:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch, Ware | 89 min |
| Dec 24, 11:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Charlton | 118 min |
| Dec 24, 11:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce | 34 min |
| Dec 24, 11:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Dec 24, 11:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden, Glynn | 2 hr |
| Dec 24, 12:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 118 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.