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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 12, 2003Columbia County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2003, 2:29 PM EDT for Columbia County, Florida. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2003, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2003, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Columbia County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 281 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1048 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1048 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 12, 9:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 9:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 12:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-122130-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1221 PM EDT THU JUN 12 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ALONG THE SEABREEZE FRONTS EARLY
THEN INCREASE IN COVERAGE ACROSS INLAND AREAS BY LATE AFTERNOON.
STORM MOTION WILL BE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THESE
STORMS WILL DRIFT TOWARD THE EAST COAST THIS EVENING. ISOLATED PULSE
SEVERE STORMS COULD DEVELOP AND THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WOULD BE FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EACH DAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER STORM
SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO SELF-ACTIVATE IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED FOR
YOUR AREA.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX.

TRABERT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 1:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 1:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAlachua, Columbia39 min
Jun 12, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval51 min
Jun 12, 3:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX63 min
Jun 12, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley, Camden38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.