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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Jacksonville, FL

October 8, 1996Charlton County, Ware County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 1996, 6:12 AM EDT for Charlton County, Ware County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 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 8, 1996, 6:12 AM EDT (10:12 UTC)
Expired
Oct 8, 1996, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Charlton County, GA, Ware County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 72 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1996-10-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1996-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 219 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJAX 081012
FFWJAX
BULLETIN-EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE, FL
612 AM EDT TUE OCT 08 1996
FLC019-031-089-109-GAC025-039-049-127-299-081600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
610  AM EDT TUE OCT 8 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTH FLORIDA

   ...CLAY COUNTY...DUVAL COUNTY...NASSAU COUNTY...BAKER...
   ...ST. JOHNS COUNTY
IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
   ...CAMDEN COUNTY...CHARLTON COUNTY

ALTHOUGH THE RAIN HAS ENDED OVER OF THE AREA...THERE ARE STILL
SEVERAL AREAS WHERE WATER CROSSES THE ROADWAYS AND WHERE LOCALIZED
FLOODING WILL OCCUR. DUE TO SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS...IT WILL
TAKE SOME TIME FOR THESE AREAS TO DRAIN. THEREFORE...THE FLOOD
WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL NOON TODAY.

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.

RAM

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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 8, 3:25 AM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 3:25 AM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
320 AM EDT TUE OCT 8 1996

LTST RADAR INTO SUGGESTS THAT JOSEPHINE LOCATED OVER EXTRM SE GA
IN CLINCH /WARE CTY ATTM AND MVG NE. PRECIP HAS TAPPERED OFF AND
NOW LIGHT OVR SE GA AND LIGHT/SPOTTY OVR ERN CTYS OF NE FL. CNVCTN
ASSOCD WITH FEEDER BAND OVR CNTRL FL PNSULA LOOKS AS IF IT WILL
RMN TO THE IMMEDIATE S AND E OF OUR CWA.
MDT GRAD ASSOCD WITH SYSTEM KEEPING WINDS UP TO BTN 20 AND 25 MPH
SVRL LOCATIONS WITH SOME HIR GUSTS (RECENTLY HAD A 47 MPH GUST AT
JAX).
WITH DRY SLOT MVG INTO NE FL/SE GA...HAVE LWRD 1ST PD POPS THAN
THOSE ADVERTISED IN FWC.

PRELIM
SSI EB 074/062 077/060 03211
JAX EB 073/060 078/055 032-0
GNV BB r075/060 080/056 03100
.
MOBBS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 7, 11:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJAXBrantley, Camden, Charlton, Ware7 hr
Oct 7, 11:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJAXGlynn7 hr
Oct 7, 11:31 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXCamden59 min
Oct 7, 11:51 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXGlynn69 min
Oct 8, 6:12 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJAXBrantley, Camden, Glynn6 hr
Oct 8, 12:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJAXCharlton6 hr
Oct 8, 12:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJAXCamden6 hr
Oct 8, 5:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJAXCharlton12 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.