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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Jacksonville, FL

August 15, 2004Camden County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 15, 2004, 3:35 PM EDT for Camden County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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
Aug 15, 2004, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2004, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
25 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), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 41 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 2004-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 508 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 2004-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KJAX 151935
TORJAX
GAC039-152000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
335 PM EDT SUN AUG 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 327 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF KINGS BAY BASE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 400 PM EDT...
  KINGS BAY BASE...
  HIGH POINT...

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 800-499-1594 TO REPORT
SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3083 8171 3072 8157 3084 8125 3102 8148
$$

CAMP

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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.