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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Jacksonville, FL

December 24, 2002Brantley County, Pierce County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 11:26 AM EST for Brantley County, Pierce County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 4 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, 11:26 AM EST (16:26 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2002, 12:00 PM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brantley County, GA, Pierce County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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, 11:30 AM EST	Tornado F0	Schlatterville, GA	Brief touchdown in Laura Walker State Park.
Dec 24, 11:45 AM EST	Tornado F0	Bristol, GA	Trees and power poles snapped off near ground. Large trees down on power lines.
Dec 24, 11:55 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Lulaton, GA	Large trees down near Satilla River.
Dec 24, 12:10 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Bristol, GA	Large trees down across two mobile homes. Some structural damage.

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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.

326 
WFUS52 KJAX 241626
TORJAX
GAC025-229-241700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1126 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BRANTLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
  SOUTHEASTERN PIERCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL NOON EST

* AT 1118 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOBOKEN TO 31 MILES WEST OF
  HOBOKEN...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALMA
  TO 2 MILES NORTH OF ARGYLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH NOON EST...
  HOBOKEN AND RAYBON...

PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A BUILDING OR STRUCTURE WHICH WILL
PROVIDE ADEQUATE PROTECTION. MOBILE HOMES AND TRAILERS DO NOT PROVIDE
ADEQUATE PROTECTION FROM A SEVERE STORM.


$$

WELSH

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, 10:45 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, 11:34 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.