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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 22, 2020Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2020, 9:17 PM EDT for Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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, 9:17 PM EDT (01:17 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2020, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Ware County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 00:00Z on 2020-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 974 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 00:00Z on 2020-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 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
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, 1 hour 2 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.

&&

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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 2:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX63 min
May 23, 3:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPutnam51 min
May 23, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAlachua59 min
May 23, 4:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXNassau55 min
May 23, 4:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXNassau65 min
May 23, 4:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBaker65 min
May 23, 5:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBradford59 min
May 23, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBradford, Clay26 min
May 23, 5:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXDuval56 min
May 23, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXColumbia, Hamilton, Suwannee59 min
May 23, 6:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXGilchrist63 min
May 23, 6:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBaker67 min
May 23, 7:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXUnion46 min
May 22, 8:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPierce60 min
May 22, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWayne27 min
May 22, 8:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare49 min
May 22, 9:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWayne33 min
May 22, 9:24 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningJAXPierce, Ware3 hr
May 22, 9:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare25 min
May 23, 2:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXCamden48 min
May 23, 3:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXClinch53 min
May 23, 3:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXCamden65 min
May 23, 4:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXEchols57 min
May 23, 4:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXLanier56 min
May 23, 5:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXCharlton62 min
May 23, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.