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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 7, 1996, 11:25 PM EDT for Nassau County, Florida; 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 1996, 11:25 PM EDT (03:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 1996, 6:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nassau County, FL, Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Ware County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 592 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 flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Oct 7, 3:16 AM EDT, 20 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 3:16 AM EDT, 20 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 300 AM EDT MON OCT 7 1996 PERIODS OF MDT/HVY CONT TO ADVECT ONSHORE OVR NE FL. DUE TO HEAVY AMTS OF PCPN PAST FEW DAYS...OUR CWAS ARE GETTING PRETTY SATURATED. 88D INDICATING STEADY FETCH OF PCPN WILL CONT THEREFORE HAVE ISSUED FFA FOR 5 OF OUR CTYS OVR NE FL. MORE RAIN ON THE WAY WITH WITH APPCH OF JOSEPHINE. SHOULD SEE SOME DAYLIGHT BY THE END OF FCST PD...BUT NOT UNTIL THEN. PRELIM SSI RR 072/068 076/064 03++7 JAX RR 075/070 079/068 03++7 GNV RR 076/071 080/065 03+96 MOBBS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 62 min |
| Oct 7, 11:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Baker | 7 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Nassau | 65 min |
| Oct 7, 11:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval, Saint Johns | 7 hr |
| Oct 8, 12:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Marion | 58 min |
| Oct 8, 12:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Putnam | 62 min |
| Oct 8, 12:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 61 min |
| Oct 8, 6:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval, Nassau, Saint Johns | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Baker, Clay | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 5:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Baker | 12 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Glynn | 7 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 59 min |
| Oct 7, 11:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Glynn | 69 min |
| Oct 8, 6:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 6:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Charlton, Ware | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 12:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Camden | 6 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.