Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 12:02 PM EST for Camden County, Georgia. It was in force for 118 min. 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, 12:02 PM EST (17:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Camden County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.
309
WFUS52 KJAX 241702
TORJAX
GAC039-241730-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1200 PM EST TUE DEC 24 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1230 PM EST
* AT 1145 AM EST A SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 12
MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOODBINE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF FOLKSTON...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED NEAR HIGHWAY 40 MOVING EAST TOWARD THE
KINGSLAND ABD ST MARYS AREAS.
THIS WARNING NOW COVERS ALL OF CAMDEN COUNTY AND SUPERSEDES THE
PREVIOUS WARNING.
THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY TORNADO.
EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
LAT...LON 3108 8190 3081 8188 3070 8144 3107 8150
3115 8176
$$
SANDRIKThe 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, 11:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden, Glynn | 2 hr |
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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.