Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 5, 2002, 10:53 PM EST for Coffee County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr. 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
- Nov 5, 2002, 10:53 PM EST (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 2002, 5:15 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Coffee County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado F0 | Needmore, GA | Trees blown down along highway 94 between Needmore and Fargo. Discontinuous 200 Yard wide debris field reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 6:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Nov 5, 10:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
992 WFUS52 KJAX 060353 TORJAX GAC069-060430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1052 PM EST TUE NOV 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1130 PM EST * AT 1042 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AMBROSE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILLACOOCHEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1130 PM EST... AMBROSE... DOUGLAS... BROXTON AND PRIDGEN... 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. 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 3148 8331 3142 8316 3158 8274 3177 8295 $$ CAMP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 3:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Ware | 6 days |
| Nov 6, 4:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Pierce | 6 days |
| Nov 6, 4:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Pierce, Wayne | 6 days |
| Nov 6, 4:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 6 days |
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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.