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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Jacksonville, FL

July 14, 20085 counties in Florida; Charlton County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2008, 6:48 PM EDT for 5 counties in Florida; Charlton County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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 14, 2008, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2008, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Duval County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Charlton County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 33 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2008-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 913 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2008-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 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
913 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 6:48 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXClay, Duval, Nassau117 min
Jul 14, 7:34 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXClay, Putnam116 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.