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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 22, 1998Baker County, Duval County, Nassau County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 22, 1998, 5:33 PM EST for Baker County, Duval County, Nassau County, Florida. It was in force for 3 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
Feb 22, 1998, 5:33 PM EST (22:33 UTC)
Expired
Feb 22, 1998, 9:00 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Baker County, FL, Duval County, FL, Nassau County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 21 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 12:00Z on 1998-02-22Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1998-02-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 270 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
371 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 222235 COR
FFWJAX
FLC003-031-089-GAC049-299-230200-

BULLETIN
FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
533 PM EST SUN FEB 22 1998

...THIS FLOOD WARNING APPLIES TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...IN SOUTH
GEORGIA...CHARLTON AND SOUTHERN WARE. IN NORTH FLORIDA...BAKER...
DUVAL...NASSAU...

NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODING IN NORTHERN FLORIDA ARE BEING RECIEVED...
ESPECIALLY IN THE JACKSONVILLE WESTSIDE...SPRINGFIELD AND MCCOYS
CREEK AREAS. RADAR INDICATES THAT ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2
INCHES MAY FALL BY MIDNIGHT...WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE.
DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS EXPECTED
OVERNIGHT.

IF YOU RECIEVED FLOODING DURING LAST MONDLAY'S STORM IT IS PRUDENT TO
ASSUME YOU WILL BE FLOODED ONCE AGAIN. TAKE PRECAUTIONS FOR THE
PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERITY NOW. DO NOT WADE INTO FLOWING WATER OR
ATTEMPT TO DRIVE INTO WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.

SANDRIK/MOBBS.

&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 11:04 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXGilchrist, Suwannee91 min
Feb 22, 11:04 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXHamilton91 min
Feb 22, 11:14 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningJAXHamilton6 hr
Feb 22, 11:32 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Columbia, Union118 min
Feb 22, 11:32 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAlachua118 min
Feb 22, 12:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClay, Duval, Nassau92 min
Feb 22, 2:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAlachua45 min
Feb 22, 3:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam45 min
Feb 22, 3:34 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXPutnam31 min
Feb 22, 3:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAlachua, Marion44 min
Feb 22, 3:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns38 min
Feb 22, 4:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam53 min
Feb 22, 4:18 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXPutnam42 min
Feb 22, 4:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns27 min
Feb 22, 4:55 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJAXColumbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Suwannee4 hr
Feb 22, 4:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXFlagler31 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.