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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 382

June 2, 200416 counties in Florida; 40 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT for 16 counties in Florida; 40 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties

Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Duval County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Cook County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXColumbia43 min
Jun 2, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBaker, Union45 min
Jun 2, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAlachua45 min
Jun 2, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval52 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 2004-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1210 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 2004-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 8:41 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton94 min
Jun 2, 1:14 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton, Holmes and 12 more91 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.