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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2008, 5:03 PM EDT for Alachua County, Marion County, Florida. It was in force for 22 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
- Jun 27, 2008, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2008, 5:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Alachua County, FL, Marion County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 2167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 27, 2:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 325 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2008 FLZ022-035-272015- COLUMBIA-GILCHRIST- 325 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2008 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWESTERN COLUMBIA AND NORTHERN GILCHRIST COUNTIES FOR STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING VALID UNTIL 415 PM EDT... AT 325 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF BELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 13 MPH. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND BELL AND FORT WHITE THROUGH 415 PM EDT. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE. REPORT DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. DEESE
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 4:10 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 431 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2008 FLZ025-272115- DUVAL- 431 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2008 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN DUVAL COUNTY FOR STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING VALID UNTIL 515 PM EDT... AT 431 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MAXVILLE...OR 13 MILES WEST OF LAKESIDE...MOVING EAST AT 11 MPH. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND MAXVILLE THROUGH 515 PM EDT. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE. REPORT DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. DEESE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 27, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Gilchrist, Suwannee | 26 min |
| Jun 27, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval, Saint Johns | 28 min |
| Jun 27, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua | 28 min |
| Jun 27, 4:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JAX | Clay, Duval, Saint Johns | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay, Duval, Nassau | 29 min |
| Jun 27, 5:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JAX | Alachua, Marion | 117 min |
| Jun 27, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 94 min | |
| Jun 27, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 91 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.