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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 5, 2016Camden County, Georgia; Nassau County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2016, 3:39 PM EDT for Camden County, Georgia; Nassau County, Florida. It was in force for 13 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: Jun 5, 2016, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2016, 3:52 PM EDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Nassau County, FL, Camden County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted.

221 
WFUS52 KJAX 051939
TORJAX
FLC089-GAC039-052015-
/O.NEW.KJAX.TO.W.0007.160605T1939Z-160605T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
339 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL NASSAU COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA...
  SOUTHWESTERN CAMDEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT
    
* AT 339 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED NEAR KINGSLAND...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KINGS FERRY AROUND 400 PM EDT. 
  KINGSLAND AROUND 410 PM EDT. 

LAT...LON 3068 8159 3066 8180 3089 8188 3092 8162
TIME...MOT...LOC 1939Z 165DEG 10KT 3075 8171 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

NELSON

1 follow-up statement

616 
WWUS52 KJAX 051952
SVSJAX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
352 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

FLC089-GAC039-052002-
/O.CAN.KJAX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-160605T2015Z/
NASSAU FL-CAMDEN GA-
352 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NASSAU AND SOUTHWESTERN
CAMDEN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
    
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED AND THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN
CANCELLED. HOWEVER...DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN LIKELY AND A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. 

LAT...LON 3068 8159 3066 8180 3089 8188 3092 8162
TIME...MOT...LOC 1948Z 165DEG 10KT 3079 8172 

$$

NELSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 8:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Jeff Davis	44 min
Jun 5, 1:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Ware	24 min
Jun 5, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Ware	24 min
Jun 5, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Pierce	40 min
Jun 5, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	51 min
Jun 5, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton, Ware	40 min
Jun 5, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Wayne	33 min
Jun 5, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden	46 min
Jun 5, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Glynn	29 min
Jun 5, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden	46 min
Jun 5, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Glynn	33 min
Jun 5, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden	13 min
Jun 5, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Glynn	46 min
Jun 5, 4:14 PM EDT	Tropical Storm Watch	JAX	Camden, Glynn	8 hr
Jun 5, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Hamilton	32 min
Jun 5, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		89 min
Jun 5, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Marion	39 min
Jun 5, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	48 min
Jun 5, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Marion	28 min
Jun 5, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Gilchrist	45 min
Jun 5, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	52 min
Jun 5, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Gilchrist	40 min
Jun 5, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Bradford	38 min
Jun 5, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval	49 min
Jun 5, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Putnam	40 min
Jun 5, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay, Flagler, Putnam, Saint Johns	42 min
Jun 5, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Saint Johns	40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.