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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 7, 2007Duval County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2007, 6:38 PM EDT for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2007, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2007, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Duval County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 235 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 880 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
880 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jul 7, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 5:45 AM EDT, 12 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
545 AM EDT SAT JUL 7 2007

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-080815-
ALACHUA-APPLING-ATKINSON-BACON-BAKER-BRADFORD-BRANTLEY-
CAMDEN (COASTAL)-CAMDEN (INLAND)-CHARLTON-CLAY-CLINCH-COFFEE-
COLUMBIA-DUVAL-ECHOLS-FLAGLER-GILCHRIST-GLYNN (COASTAL)-
GLYNN (INLAND)-HAMILTON-JEFF DAVIS-MARION-NASSAU-PIERCE-PUTNAM-
ST JOHNS-SUWANNEE-UNION-WARE-WAYNE-
545 AM EDT SAT JUL 7 2007

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED TODAY...

DUE TO HIGH MOISTURE ACROSS THE AREA AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES...
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY MAINLY DURING
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS TO
AROUND 40 MPH. DUE TO SLOW MOTION OF STORMS TO THE EAST...HEAVY
RAINFALL MAY PRODUCE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS.

MOST LIGHTNING FATALITIES AND INJURIES OCCUR IN OPEN FIELDS OR UNDER
TREES.  IF OUTDOORS DURING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...SEEK SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING OR CAR.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED EACH DAY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

WARMER DAYTIME TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST AND WILL LIKELY RESULT IN
HEAT INDICES OF AROUND 100 FROM SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...
SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO REPORT IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED.

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

ARS

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 2:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX55 min
Jul 7, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXFlagler50 min
Jul 7, 3:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX93 min
Jul 7, 4:25 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX65 min
Jul 7, 5:32 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX88 min
Jul 7, 6:36 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX84 min
Jul 7, 7:03 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX87 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.