Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2012, 10:12 AM EST for Bacon County, Coffee County, Jeff Davis County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 3, 2012, 10:12 AM EST (15:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2012, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bacon County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Jeff Davis 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 3, 7:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
285 WUUS52 KJAX 031512 SVRJAX GAC005-069-161-031545- /O.NEW.KJAX.SV.W.0013.120303T1512Z-120303T1545Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1012 AM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA NORTHWESTERN BACON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA EASTERN COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1045 AM EST * AT 1012 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEASTERN COFFEE COUNTY...OR 13 MILES EAST OF BROXTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EST SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. && LAT...LON 3173 8253 3155 8247 3158 8273 3171 8271 TIME...MOT...LOC 1512Z 255DEG 39KT 3166 8264 $$
1 follow-up statement
431 WWUS52 KJAX 031533 SVSJAX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1033 AM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 GAC069-031543- /O.CAN.KJAX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120303T1545Z/ COFFEE GA- 1033 AM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN COFFEE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EST SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3173 8253 3157 8248 3159 8260 3170 8258 TIME...MOT...LOC 1533Z 255DEG 39KT 3172 8238 $$ GAC005-161-031545- /O.CON.KJAX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120303T1545Z/ JEFF DAVIS GA-BACON GA- 1033 AM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 AM EST FOR NORTHWESTERN BACON AND SOUTHERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES... AT 1033 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO TRACK A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL... AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN APPLING COUNTY...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAXLEY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EST SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. && LAT...LON 3173 8253 3157 8248 3159 8260 3170 8258 TIME...MOT...LOC 1533Z 255DEG 39KT 3172 8238 $$ ZIBURA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2:19 AM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | JAX | Camden, Glynn | 13 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:06 AM EST | Flood Watch | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Clinch and 6 more | 21 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 9:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 10:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Jeff Davis | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 10:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 42 min |
| Mar 3, 11:01 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Wayne | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 11:07 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Atkinson | 38 min |
| Mar 3, 11:39 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Bacon | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 12:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch, Ware | 42 min |
| Mar 3, 12:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce, Ware | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 12:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Wayne | 40 min |
| Mar 3, 12:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Wayne | 21 min |
| Mar 3, 1:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce, Wayne | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 1:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch, Ware | 43 min |
| Mar 3, 1:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn, Wayne | 25 min |
| Mar 3, 2:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce, Ware | 43 min |
| Mar 3, 2:04 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch, Pierce, Ware | 116 min |
| Mar 3, 2:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn, Pierce, Wayne | 28 min |
| Mar 3, 2:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Glynn | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 2:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Clinch | 46 min |
| Mar 3, 3:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Glynn and 1 more | 119 min |
| Mar 3, 4:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Clinch, Echols, Ware | 41 min |
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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.