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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 22, 2020Wayne County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2020, 8:33 PM EDT for Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2020, 8:33 PM EDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2020, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Wayne County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 974 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 8:15 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
815 PM EDT Fri May 22 2020

GAZ132-134>136-149-151-163-250-230115-
Pierce GA-Bacon GA-Atkinson GA-Appling GA-Clinch GA-Coffee GA-
Wayne GA-Northern Ware GA-
815 PM EDT Fri May 22 2020

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN COFFEE...PIERCE...
SOUTHEASTERN ATKINSON...NORTHWESTERN WARE...SOUTHERN BACON...WEST
CENTRAL WAYNE...NORTH CENTRAL CLINCH AND SOUTHEASTERN APPLING
COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM EDT...

* At 814 PM EDT, National Weather Service meteorologists were
  tracking multiple strong thunderstorms across the advisory area.
  The storms were drifting slowly northward.

* Small hail, winds in excess of 45 mph, and minor flooding due to
  heavy rainfall is possible with this storm.

* Locations impacted include...
  Waycross, Blackshear, Patterson, Offerman, Jamestown, Pebble Hill,
  Bristol, Dixie Union, New Lacy and Millwood.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. You can also share your report with NWS Jacksonville on
Facebook and Twitter.

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LAT...LON 3156 8200 3123 8219 3116 8278 3145 8268
      3159 8225
TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 240DEG 6KT 3144 8249

WOLF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		63 min
May 23, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Putnam	51 min
May 23, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua	59 min
May 23, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	55 min
May 23, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	65 min
May 23, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Baker	65 min
May 23, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Bradford	59 min
May 23, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Bradford, Clay	26 min
May 23, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval	56 min
May 23, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee	59 min
May 23, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Gilchrist	63 min
May 23, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Baker	67 min
May 23, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Union	46 min
May 22, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Pierce	60 min
May 22, 8:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Ware	49 min
May 22, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Wayne	33 min
May 22, 9:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Ware	43 min
May 22, 9:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAX	Pierce, Ware	3 hr
May 22, 9:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Ware	25 min
May 23, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden	48 min
May 23, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clinch	53 min
May 23, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden	65 min
May 23, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Echols	57 min
May 23, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Lanier	56 min
May 23, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	62 min
May 23, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Ware	43 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.