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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 9, 2024Glynn County, Wayne County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2024, 3:45 PM EDT for Glynn County, Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 9, 2024, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2024, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Glynn County, GA, Wayne County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 9, 1:47 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 542 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 9, 3:35 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:35 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 3:15 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 3:16 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 3:20 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 3:25 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 3:35 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 3:43 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		2 hr
May 9, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	29 min
May 9, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Hamilton	49 min
May 9, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton	28 min
May 9, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		88 min
May 9, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clay, Duval, Nassau	38 min
May 9, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Columbia	52 min
May 9, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Baker, Columbia, Union	30 min
May 9, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval	34 min
May 9, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Suwannee, Union	40 min
May 9, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Jeff Davis	55 min
May 9, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Coffee, Jeff Davis	32 min
May 9, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Jeff Davis, Wayne	35 min
May 9, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis	47 min
May 9, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Wayne	29 min
May 9, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Coffee	40 min
May 9, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Pierce	33 min
May 9, 3:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	JAX	Bacon, Coffee, Pierce, Ware	25 min
May 9, 3:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon, Pierce	23 min
May 9, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Wayne	37 min
May 9, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Ware, Wayne	27 min
May 9, 3:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Pierce, Wayne	25 min
May 9, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson	50 min
May 9, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAX	Appling, Brantley, Camden, Glynn, Pierce, Wayne	66 min
May 9, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton, Clinch, Ware	28 min
May 9, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Ware	65 min
May 9, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Echols	46 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.