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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 11:39 AM EST for Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2002, 11:39 AM EST (16:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Camden County, GA, Glynn County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 89 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.
504 WFUS52 KJAX 241639 TORJAX GAC039-127-241730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1139 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA GLYNN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1230 PM EST * AT 1135 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODBINE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF DOCK JUNCTION...MOVING EAST AT 75 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1230 PM EST... WOODBINE... BRUNSWICK AND DOCK JUNCTION... ST SIMONS AND COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES... 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. LAT...LON 3133 8171 3084 8186 3122 8065 3146 8071 $$ 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, 11:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce | 34 min |
| Dec 24, 11:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.