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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 26, 2024Appling County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 2024, 1:45 PM EDT for Appling 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: Sep 26, 2024, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired: Sep 26, 2024, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

County Appling County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 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
Sep 26, 10:49 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 637 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.6

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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 Sep 26, 1:17 PM EDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 1:17 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 26, 12:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 26, 12:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
1233 PM EDT Thu Sep 26 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1200 PM     Tropical Cyclone 1 NNE Saint Augustine B 29.86N 81.27W
09/26/2024                   St. Johns          FL   Mesonet

            Mesonet station SAUF1 1 NNE Saint Augustine
            Beach measured a wind gust of 41 mph.

&&

WLC

Local storm report, Sep 26, 12:54 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
1254 PM EDT Thu Sep 26 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1246 PM     Tropical Cyclone 2 NNW Vilano Beach      29.97N 81.32W
09/26/2024                   St. Johns          FL   AWOS

            Wind Gust of 40 mph measured by AWOS station
            KSGJ St Augustine.

&&

WLC

Local storm report, Sep 26, 1:24 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
124 PM EDT Thu Sep 26 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0110 PM     Tropical Cyclone 1 NNE Jacksonville Beac 30.29N 81.39W
09/26/2024                   AMZ452             FL   Mesonet

            Mesonet station 1618W Fswn Jacksonville
            Beach measured a wind gust of 48mph.

&&

WLC

Local storm report, Sep 26, 1:27 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
127 PM EDT Thu Sep 26 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0120 PM     Tropical Cyclone 1 N Neptune Beach       30.32N 81.39W
09/26/2024                   Duval              FL   Mesonet

            Mesonet station 1482W Fswn Duval Neptune
            Beach measured a wind gust of 44 mph.

&&

WLC

Local storm report, Sep 26, 1:31 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
131 PM EDT Thu Sep 26 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0120 PM     Tropical Cyclone 2 NNW Mayport           30.41N 81.42W
09/26/2024                   Duval              FL   Mesonet

            Wind gust of 44 mph measured at Huguenot
            Memorial Park.

&&

WLC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 26, 5:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Saint Johns	14 min
Sep 26, 5:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Saint Johns	17 min
Sep 26, 5:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Saint Johns	6 min
Sep 26, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		44 min
Sep 26, 10:15 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden, Glynn, Wayne	30 min
Sep 26, 11:14 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Glynn	17 min
Sep 26, 12:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Pierce	27 min
Sep 26, 1:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Appling	30 min
Sep 26, 2:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Bacon, Coffee	31 min
Sep 26, 2:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Coffee, Jeff Davis	37 min
Sep 26, 2:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Coffee, Jeff Davis	34 min
Sep 26, 7:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Charlton, Clinch, Ware	24 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.