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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Jacksonville, FL

August 5, 2024Duval County, Saint Johns County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 2024, 5:28 PM EDT for Duval County, Saint Johns County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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: Aug 5, 2024, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2024, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

Counties Duval County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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
Aug 5, 5:57 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 2701 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.9
Supercell composite: 25.2

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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 Aug 5, 5:07 PM EDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 5:07 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:38 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:44 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:15 PM EDT, 13 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
Aug 4, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		65 min
Aug 4, 8:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Alachua, Gilchrist, Marion	3 hr
Aug 4, 8:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		64 min
Aug 4, 9:20 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		55 min
Aug 4, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		53 min
Aug 4, 10:43 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	JAX	Hamilton, Suwannee	19 days
Aug 4, 10:43 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	JAX	Columbia, Gilchrist	21 days
Aug 4, 10:43 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	JAX	Alachua, Columbia	21 days
Aug 4, 11:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		83 min
Aug 4, 11:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Marion	3 hr
Aug 4, 11:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Alachua, Columbia, Gilchrist, Suwannee	3 hr
Aug 5, 12:27 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		63 min
Aug 5, 12:50 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAX	Alachua, Gilchrist, Marion	6 hr
Aug 5, 1:25 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	JAX	Duval, Nassau	28 hr
Aug 5, 1:25 AM EDT	High Surf Advisory	JAX	Duval, Nassau	37 hr
Aug 5, 1:27 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Suwannee and 1 more	3 hr
Aug 5, 1:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Gilchrist, Marion, Putnam and 1 more	3 hr
Aug 5, 2:19 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	JAX	Flagler	21 hr
Aug 5, 4:19 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton and 4 more	6 hr
Aug 5, 4:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Alachua, Gilchrist	9 hr
Aug 5, 6:44 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAX	Alachua, Gilchrist, Marion	6 hr
Aug 5, 7:08 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Columbia, Gilchrist, Suwannee	5 hr
Aug 5, 7:24 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Hamilton, Union	6 hr
Aug 5, 7:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Union	5 hr
Aug 5, 9:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	JAX	Suwannee	3 hr
Aug 5, 9:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee	6 hr
Aug 5, 10:37 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAX	Nassau	3 hr
Aug 5, 12:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyConsiderable damage threat	JAX	Columbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Suwannee	6 hr
Aug 5, 3:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Union	6 hr
Aug 5, 3:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Duval, Saint Johns	20 min
Aug 5, 4:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	JAX	Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee	3 hr
Aug 4, 10:29 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	JAX	Echols	21 days
Aug 4, 10:43 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	JAX	Pierce, Ware	21 days
Aug 5, 9:42 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	JAX	Glynn, McIntosh, Wayne	24 hr

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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.