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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Jacksonville, FL

August 30, 2001Clay County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2001, 8:59 PM EDT for Clay County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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 30, 2001, 8:59 PM EDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 2001, 9:25 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Clay County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 30, 9:00 PM EDTHail 0.75Middleburg, FL
Aug 30, 9:15 PM EDTThunderstorm WindMiddleburg, FLLarge trees and power lines were blown down.

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 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 30, 2:05 PM EDT, 6 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 2:05 PM EDT, 6 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
205 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001

CURRENTLY...HIGH PRES RIDGE AT THE SFC AND ALOFT CONTINUES OVER THE
AREA. CU FIELD SLOW TO DEVELOP OVER EXTREME NE FL AND SE GA...DUE TO
SLIGHT SUBSIDENCE ALOFT AND THICKER HI CLOUDS. MEANWHILE...A FEW
SHOWERS BEGINNING TO FIRE IN THE SUWANNEE VALLEY AREA. W COAST
SEABREEZE HAS MADE IT ABOUT 10 MILES INLAND WHILE E COAST BREEZE IS
JUST BEGINNING TO MOVE INLAND.

MODELS...ONLY REAL CHANGE IS THAT RIDGE SINKS A LITTLE FARTHER S AND
WEAKENS SLIGHTLY. THIS ALLOWS A WEAK COLD FRONT TO APPROACH THE AREA
FROM THE N. THIS FRONT SHOULD STALL OVER THE N PORTION OF OUR CWA.
AVN DEVELOPS A FAIRLY STRONG LOW OVER THE MS VALLEY AND MOVE IT
ALONG FRONT EARLY THIS WEEKEND...TENDING TO DRAG FRONT A LITTLE
FARTHER S. THINK THIS IS UNLIKELY DUE TO THE NEARLY ZONAL FLOW AND
LACK OF MUCH POTENT SHORTWAVE ENERGY. IN FACT...WEAK 500MB TROFFING
CONTINUES BACK OVER THE MS VALLEY...AND THIS WOULD FURTHER PREVENT
THE FRONT FROM PUSHING FARTHER S.

PUBLIC...IN THE SHORT TERM...BELIEVE COVERAGE OF PRECIP THIS EVENING
WILL BE SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY EVENING. COVERAGE MAY BE ENHANCED LATER
BY A WEAK SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS GA. FRI PRECIP SHOULD ALSO BE
SIMILAR...ALTHO THERE SHOULD BE MORE OF A W COMPONENT TO WIND FLOW.
AS A RESULT...HIGHER POPS WILL BE SKEWED MORE TOWARD THE E COAST.
SAT...WILL GO ABOVE CLIMO POPS AS FRONT APPROACHES.

EXTENDED...COLD FRONT MAY BACKDOOR DOWN INTO NE FL BEFORE WASHING
OUT...BUT SEE NO REASON TO MAKE ANY BIG CHANGES.

MARINE...SW WINDS INCREASE LATE FRI...BUT THIS IN COVERED BY CURRENT
PACKAGE. LITTLE CHANGE EXPECTED.

PRELIM...
AMG 72/92/73/90 3425
SSI 75/88/75/90 2325
JAX 72/93/73/92 2435
GNV 72/92/73/91 3534 31

.JAX...
.GA...NONE.
.FL...NONE.

PUBLIC/MARINE...SEC
AVIATION/FIRE...RAM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 8:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClay28 min
Aug 31, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXColumbia, Suwannee65 min
Aug 31, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXSaint Johns62 min
Aug 31, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval39 min
Aug 31, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClay47 min
Aug 31, 7:20 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXNassau25 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.