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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 16, 1997Marion County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1997, 2:37 PM EDT for Marion County, Florida. It was in force for 68 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
Jul 16, 1997, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1997, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 16, 2:30 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:30 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam40 min
Jul 15, 10:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling, Jeff Davis53 min
Jul 16, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXGlynn57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.