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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 19, 2003Coffee County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 6:07 PM EST for Coffee County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
Mar 19, 2003, 6:07 PM EST (23:07 UTC)
Expired
Mar 19, 2003, 6:45 PM EST
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Coffee County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 19, 5:50 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-03-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 467 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-03-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 211 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
467 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
640 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 192307
TORJAX
GAC069-192345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
607 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 645 PM EST

* AT 602 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROXTON...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 645 PM EST...
  BROXTON...
  PRIDGEN...

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 3166 8306 3153 8291 3165 8281 3182 8292
$$

SHASHY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 5:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee44 min
Mar 19, 6:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXJeff Davis38 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.