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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2003, 2:20 PM EST for Coffee County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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 20, 2003, 2:20 PM EST (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2003, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 40 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 8:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KJAX 201920 TORJAX GAC069-202000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 220 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 300 PM EST * AT 218 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NICHOLLS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF DOUGLAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 300 PM EST... NICHOLLS... 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 8263 3151 8259 3141 8271 3150 8283 $$ SHASHY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 7:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Jeff Davis | 45 min |
| Mar 19, 7:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 43 min |
| Mar 19, 8:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Wayne | 23 min |
| Mar 19, 9:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Wayne | 44 min |
| Mar 20, 8:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 48 min |
| Mar 20, 9:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 48 min |
| Mar 20, 9:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 50 min |
| Mar 20, 12:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 57 min |
| Mar 20, 12:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 50 min |
| Mar 20, 1:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon | 40 min |
| Mar 20, 1:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon | 40 min |
| Mar 20, 1:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 26 min |
| Mar 20, 1:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon | 38 min |
| Mar 20, 1:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 39 min |
| Mar 20, 2:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 27 min |
| Mar 20, 2:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 51 min |
| Mar 20, 2:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 35 min |
| Mar 20, 2:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon | 46 min |
| Mar 20, 2:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 56 min |
| Mar 20, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton | 67 min |
| Mar 20, 3:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 3:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Bacon | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 4:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 38 min |
| Mar 20, 6:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch | 41 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.