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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 17, 1995Duval County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1995, 12:57 AM EDT for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 1995, 12:57 AM EDT (04:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1995, 5:00 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Duval County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 3143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJAX 170456
FFWJAX
FLC031-170900-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1257 AM EDT MON JUL 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ...
 
IN NORTH FLORIDA
 
   ...DUVAL COUNTY
 
AT 1253 AM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDESPREAD STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
THAT WILL PRODUCE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL OVER THE NEXT HOUR.
THESE STORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL.
FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADWAYS IS IMMINENT.
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

What forecasters said that day

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 10:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1055 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995

TIME (EDT)   .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE         ....COUNTY LOCATION....

530 PM       ST MARYS                GA     TREES DOWN IN DOWNTOWN AREA.
7/16/95      CAMDEN                         TREES ALSO DOWN ON GRAYFIELD
                                            DR...SEMINOLE RD. REPORTED
                             8               BY TV 12 METEOROLOGIST SPOTTER
                                            AND CAMDEN CO EMERG. 911.

PETERSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 12:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay	68 min
Jul 17, 2:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Baker	57 min
Jul 17, 2:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Nassau	4 hr
Jul 17, 3:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Duval, Nassau	67 min
Jul 17, 4:53 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Duval, Nassau	4 hr
Jul 17, 5:37 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Clay	3 hr

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.