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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Jacksonville, FL

December 24, 2002Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 10:45 AM EST for Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 90 min. 1 report 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: Dec 24, 2002, 10:45 AM EST (15:45 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2002, 12:15 PM EST
In force: 90 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ware County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:44 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
Dec 24, 12:15 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Countywide, GA	Numerous trees, large limbs, and power lines were down across the county.

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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 241545
TORJAX
GAC299-241645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1045 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN AND CENTRAL WARE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1145 AM EST

* AT 1039 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF DIXIE UNION...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF ARGYLE...
  MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1145 AM EST...   
  DIXIE UNION AND MANOR AND WAYCROSS...

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.

LAT...LON 3145 8259 3118 8267 3097 8245 3137 8241
$$

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, 10:38 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon	67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.