Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Jacksonville, FL

Issued

Jun 14, 2001, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)

Expired

Jun 14, 2001, 5:30 PM EDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Jacksonville, FL

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Saint Johns County, FL

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS52 KJAX 142046
SVRJAX
FLC109-142130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
446 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ST. JOHNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 446 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES WEST
  OF ELKTON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HASTINGS...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 530 PM EDT...
  ELKTON AND SPUDS...
  DUPONT CENTER...
  CRESCENT BEACH...
  ST. AUGUSTINE SOUTH AND ST. AUGUSTINE SHORES...
  ST. AUGUSTINE AND ANASTASIA...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM IN
THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE OR BUSINESS.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS.

LAT...LON 2982 8159 2969 8144 2970 8122 3000 8134

$$

MOBBS

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
300 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001

CURRENTLY...WATER VAPOR AND IR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWED A WEAK VORT
MID TO UPPER LEVEL VORT SWINGING ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA AND
NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA. THE GULF SEA BREEZE IS IN FULL SWING...WITH
THE ATLANTIC SEA BREEZE ATTEMPTING TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE COAST IN
FLAGLER AND ST JOHNS COUNTIES. EXPECT THE EAST COAST SEABREEZE TO
ENHANCE STORMS IN THAT AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.
HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE AREA INTO THE WEEKEND. A WEAK
COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH AND MOVE ACROSS THE AREA BY LATE WEEKEND
AND EARLY NEXT WEEK...HOWEVER  WITH THE SEABREEZE FRONTS BEING THE
PRIMARY FOCUS FOR SHOWER ACTIVITY...WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS FOR
AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY FOR THIS PACKAGE.

PRELIM
AMG 72/92/72/92 3334
SSI 74/90/73/89 3334
JAX 73/93/74/91 3535
GNV 72/94/92/94 3434 33

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

BLS

In the hours before

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-150000-

NORTHEAST FLORIDA/SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1200 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA...

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS INTERIOR SECTIONS OF NORTH FLORIDA AND
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. THIS ACTIVITY WILL MOVE EAST AT 10 MPH. BY
MID-AFTERNOON...THE EAST COAST SEABREEZE WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INLAND
ACROSS NORTHEAST FLORIDA. THEREFORE...THE MOST CONCENTRATED AREA OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS NEAR THE SAINT JOHNS
RIVER. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG...WITH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40
MPH POSSIBLE...AS WELL AS SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING.

HEAT INDICES WILL APPROACH THE 100 TO 105 DEGREE RANGE IN SOME
LOCATIONS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PERSONS ENGAGED IN
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT HEAT STRESS RELATED
INJURIES.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX.

CARROLL

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.