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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Jacksonville, FL

August 18, 1998Marion County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 1998, 4:03 PM EDT for Marion 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
Aug 18, 1998, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
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 20:02 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 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 Aug 18, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 18, 12:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval62 min
Aug 18, 12:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXNassau61 min
Aug 18, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClay61 min
Aug 18, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXMarion64 min
Aug 18, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXColumbia, Union67 min
Aug 18, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley65 min
Aug 18, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXJeff Davis31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.