Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 359, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1998, 2:39 PM EDT for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1998, 2:39 PM EDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1998, 3:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duval County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington, FL | Large trees and power lines were blown down at the corner of St. Johns Bluff Rd. and Lone Pine Rd. |
| Aug 17, 2:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Arlington, FL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 989 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 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 Aug 17, 1:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 1:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 107 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1998 CURRENT SAT PIX AND 88D INDICATE TWO AREAS OF CONVERGENCE... FRIST EXTENDS FROM PANHANDLE TO NORTHERN PORTION OF CWA. SECOND... EXTENDS FROM TRENTON TO JAX. EXPECT A FEW STORMS WILL REACH SEVERE LIMITS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE MODELS TEND TO BRING SOME DRIER AIR ACROSS THE REGION BY DAY TWO... AS 500 TROF MOVES EAST AND WEAK RIDGE BUILDS ACROSS THE AREA. AFTRN TEMPS AND CAPE VALUES HOWEVER WILL REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL. PRELIM SSI TB 074/089 074/085 22633 JAX TB 074/096 073/094 22633 GNV TB 073/094 072/094 22633 JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Nassau | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 3:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Duval | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 29 min |
| Aug 17, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Nassau | 66 min |
| Aug 17, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn | 44 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.