Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1995, 8:04 AM EDT for Columbia County, Florida. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1995, 8:04 AM EDT (12:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1995, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 660 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Aug 25, 6:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
FLZ020-021-023-023>025-030>033-035>038-040-241530- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 615 AM EDT FRI AUG 25 1995 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR ALL OF NORTH AND NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT ... TROPICAL DEPRESSION JERRY IN THE NORTHEASTERN GULF NEAR CEDAR KEY HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY OVERNIGHT AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHWEST INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO TODAY. RAIN BANDS WILL CONTINUE TO SPIRAL ACROSS NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO LINGER INTO TONIGHT ESPECIALLY IN EXTREME NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTH GEORGIA. RAINFALL TOTALS OF UP TO 4 TO 8 INCHES WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF MANY LOW LYING AREAS AS WELL AS DRAINAGE DITCHES AND STREAMS. IN ADDITION THE POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR TORNADOES TO FORM LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TODAY. FREQUENT SHOWERS AND SQUALLS WILL CONTINUE IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL AND OFFSHORE WATERS RESULTING IN STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VISIBILITIES REDUCED TO LESS THAN 1 NAUTICAL MILE. WATER SPOUTS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM JERRY TODAY WILL BE FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES LATE TODAY. KUYPER/PETERSON
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 6:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
FLZ020-021-023-023>025-030>033-035>038-040-241530- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 615 AM EDT FRI AUG 25 1995 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR ALL OF NORTH AND NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT ... TROPICAL DEPRESSION JERRY IN THE NORTHEASTERN GULF NEAR CEDAR KEY HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY OVERNIGHT AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHWEST INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO TODAY. RAIN BANDS WILL CONTINUE TO SPIRAL ACROSS NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO LINGER INTO TONIGHT ESPECIALLY IN EXTREME NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTH GEORGIA. RAINFALL TOTALS OF UP TO 4 TO 8 INCHES WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF MANY LOW LYING AREAS AS WELL AS DRAINAGE DITCHES AND STREAMS. IN ADDITION THE POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR TORNADOES TO FORM LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TODAY. FREQUENT SHOWERS AND SQUALLS WILL CONTINUE IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL AND OFFSHORE WATERS RESULTING IN STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VISIBILITIES REDUCED TO LESS THAN 1 NAUTICAL MILE. WATER SPOUTS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM JERRY TODAY WILL BE FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES LATE TODAY. KUYPER/PETERSON
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 6:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
FLZ020-021-023-023>025-030>033-035>038-040-251530- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 620 AM EDT FRI AUG 25 1995 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR ALL OF NORTH AND NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT ... TROPICAL DEPRESSION JERRY IN THE NORTHEASTERN GULF NEAR CEDAR KEY HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY OVERNIGHT AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHWEST INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO TODAY. RAIN BANDS WILL CONTINUE TO SPIRAL ACROSS NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO LINGER INTO TONIGHT ESPECIALLY IN EXTREME NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTH GEORGIA. RAINFALL TOTALS OF UP TO 4 TO 8 INCHES WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF MANY LOW LYING AREAS AS WELL AS DRAINAGE DITCHES AND STREAMS. IN ADDITION THE POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR TORNADOES TO FORM LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TODAY. FREQUENT SHOWERS AND SQUALLS WILL CONTINUE IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL AND OFFSHORE WATERS RESULTING IN STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VISIBILITIES REDUCED TO LESS THAN 1 NAUTICAL MILE. WATER SPOUTS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM JERRY TODAY WILL BE FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES LATE TODAY. KUYPER/PETERSON
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 6:21 AM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
FLZ020-021-023-023>025-030>033-035>038-040-251530- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 620 AM EDT FRI AUG 25 1995 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR ALL OF NORTH AND NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT ... TROPICAL DEPRESSION JERRY IN THE NORTHEASTERN GULF NEAR CEDAR KEY HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY OVERNIGHT AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHWEST INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO TODAY. RAIN BANDS WILL CONTINUE TO SPIRAL ACROSS NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO LINGER INTO TONIGHT ESPECIALLY IN EXTREME NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTH GEORGIA. RAINFALL TOTALS OF UP TO 4 TO 8 INCHES WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF MANY LOW LYING AREAS AS WELL AS DRAINAGE DITCHES AND STREAMS. IN ADDITION THE POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR TORNADOES TO FORM LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TODAY. FREQUENT SHOWERS AND SQUALLS WILL CONTINUE IN THE ADJACENT COASTAL AND OFFSHORE WATERS RESULTING IN STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VISIBILITIES REDUCED TO LESS THAN 1 NAUTICAL MILE. WATER SPOUTS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM JERRY TODAY WILL BE FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES LATE TODAY. KUYPER/PETERSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Columbia | 43 min |
| Aug 25, 1:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Camden | 7 hr |
| Aug 25, 7:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Camden | 5 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.