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Red Flag Warning 35, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 2, 20096 counties in Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 2, 2009, 2:37 PM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 3, 2009, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 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 2, 2009, 2:37 PM EST (19:37 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 3, 2009, 11:00 AM EST
Expired: Mar 3, 2009, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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 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 2, 9:45 AM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 9:45 AM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 2, 4:16 AM EST, 10 hours 21 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
416 AM EST MON MAR 2 2009

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-031000-
HAMILTON-SUWANNEE-COLUMBIA-BAKER-NASSAU-DUVAL-UNION-BRADFORD-CLAY-
ST JOHNS-GILCHRIST-ALACHUA-PUTNAM-FLAGLER-MARION-COFFEE-
JEFF DAVIS-BACON-APPLING-WAYNE-ATKINSON-WARE-PIERCE-BRANTLEY-
INLAND GLYNN-COASTAL GLYNN-ECHOLS-CLINCH-CHARLTON-INLAND CAMDEN-
COASTAL CAMDEN-
416 AM EST MON MAR 2 2009

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

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

...GALE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE OFFSHORE COASTAL WATERS
THIS MORNING...

...HARD FREEZE AND FREEZE WATCH TONIGHT...

WINDS OVER THE OFFSHORE COASTAL WATERS OF 25 TO 30 KNOTS WITH
FREQUENT GALE FORCE GUSTS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MID-MORNING. FURTHER
DETAILS ARE IN THE URGENT MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE.

A FREEZE IS EXPECTED TONIGHT...WITH A HARD FREEZE WELL INLAND.
PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST URGENT WEATHER MESSAGES FOR FURTHER
DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

ANOTHER FREEZE EVENT IS LIKELY TUESDAY NIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY
MORNING OVER INLAND AREAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.

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

MZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 2, 11:41 AM EST, 2 hours 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1141 AM EST MON MAR 02 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0350 AM     HAIL             5 E WAYCROSS            31.22N 82.28W
03/01/2009  E0.50 INCH       WARE               GA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WITH SMALL BRANCHES DOWN
            REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER.

0430 AM     TSTM WND DMG     4 ESE SANDERSON         30.23N 82.22W
03/01/2009                   BAKER              FL   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SMALL BRANCHES DOWN AND A METAL BRACKET HOLDING RAIN GAGE
            DAMAGED FROM THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS.

&&

ARS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 4:52 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		4 hr
Mar 2, 9:04 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		3 hr
Mar 2, 2:02 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		40 hr
Mar 2, 2:09 PM EST	Freeze Watch	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union	13 hr
Mar 2, 2:09 PM EST	Freeze Warning	JAX	Flagler, Nassau	19 hr
Mar 2, 2:09 PM EST	Hard Freeze Warning	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Suwannee, Union	19 hr
Mar 2, 2:37 PM EST	Fire Weather Watch	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union	23 hr

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.