Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2002, 11:13 AM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 4 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
- Jun 22, 2002, 11:13 AM EDT (15:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, FL, Duval County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS52 KJAX 221513
FFWJAX
FLC019-031-107-109-221900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1105 AM EDT SAT JUN 22 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA
SOUTHEASTERN DUVAL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA
NORTHEASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA
NORTHERN ST. JOHNS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA
* UNTIL 300 PM EDT
* AT 1100 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF
NORTHEASTERN PUTNAM AND SOUTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTIES ALONG HIGHWAY
17 BETWEEN PALATKA AND GREEN COVE SPRINGS. STREAMS HAVE LIKELY
OVERFLOWED THEIR BANKS IN THIS AREA. THIS AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL
IS MOVING INTO NORTHERN ST JOHNS AND SOUTHEASTERN DUVAL COUNTIES
WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOURS AND FLOODING IS
EXPECTED IN THESE AREAS AS WELL.
* EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS RAINFALL WILL CAUSE RAPID FLOODING
OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES.
ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS
OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT
TO FLOODING.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...OR YOU CAN ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE DIRECTLY AT 904-741-4370 TO REPORT FLOODING.
$$
LAT...LON 2935 8162 2955 8183 2953 8199 2974 8196
3027 8203 3056 8171 3056 8152 3047 8140
3021 8138 2972 8123 2972 8148 2962 8152
2949 8152 2939 8146
HESSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Marion | 59 min |
| Jun 22, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAX | Marion | 81 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.