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Red Flag Warning 26, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 7, 2008, 3:45 AM EST for 7 counties in Florida; 7 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 8, 2008, 4:12 AM EST. It was in force for 15 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
- Mar 7, 2008, 3:45 AM EST (08:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 8, 2008, 4:12 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2008, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Wayne County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 6, 9:15 PM EST, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 9:15 PM EST, 6 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 3:45 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | JAX | Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more | 34 hr |
| Mar 7, 6:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Suwannee | 35 min |
| Mar 7, 8:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Hamilton, Suwannee | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 8:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 42 min |
| Mar 7, 9:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 9:13 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Suwannee | 32 min |
| Mar 7, 9:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Columbia, Suwannee | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 9:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Gilchrist, Union | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 9:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Suwannee and 1 more | 51 min |
| Mar 7, 9:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Baker | 39 min |
| Mar 7, 10:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval, Nassau | 67 min |
| Mar 7, 10:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Baker, Duval, Nassau | 13 min |
| Mar 7, 10:23 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 2 hr | |
| Mar 7, 10:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Bradford, Gilchrist, Union | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 10:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Alachua | 41 min |
| Mar 7, 10:55 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 35 min |
| Mar 7, 10:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 49 min |
| Mar 7, 11:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bradford, Clay | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 11:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Nassau | 30 min |
| Mar 7, 11:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay, Marion, Putnam | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 11:32 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 118 min | |
| Mar 7, 11:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay, Saint Johns | 47 min |
| Mar 7, 12:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Flagler, Saint Johns | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 12:35 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 115 min | |
| Mar 7, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Marion, Putnam | 65 min |
| Mar 7, 1:34 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 116 min | |
| Mar 7, 1:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 41 min |
| Mar 7, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Flagler, Putnam, Saint Johns | 60 min |
| Mar 7, 2:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion, Putnam | 62 min |
| Mar 7, 2:41 PM EST | Freeze Watch | JAX | Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union | 23 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Marion | 51 min |
| Mar 7, 3:33 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 117 min | |
| Mar 7, 4:18 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 117 min | |
| Mar 7, 4:29 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 2 hr | |
| Mar 7, 7:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton, Clinch, Ware | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 9:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, Pierce, Ware and 1 more | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 9:48 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Ware | 42 min |
| Mar 7, 10:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn, Wayne | 46 min |
| Mar 7, 10:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Wayne | 19 min |
| Mar 7, 10:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn, Wayne | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.