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Dense Smoke Advisory 2, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 22, 2011Nassau County, Florida; Brantley County, Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this dense smoke advisory at Jun 22, 2011, 9:42 AM EDT for Nassau County, Florida; Brantley County, Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2011, 9:42 AM EDT (13:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2011, 4:01 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Nassau County, FL, Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Glynn County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 879 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 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 dense smoke advisory 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 dense smoke advisory went out at Jun 22, 3:41 AM EDT, 6 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:41 AM EDT, 6 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 5:49 AM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 5:24 AM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 5:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 9:44 AM EDT	Marine Dense Smoke Advisory	JAX		6 hr
Jun 22, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Putnam	47 min
Jun 22, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler	32 min
Jun 22, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Marion, Putnam	44 min
Jun 22, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Putnam	35 min
Jun 22, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Gilchrist	32 min
Jun 22, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Marion	35 min
Jun 22, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Marion	29 min
Jun 22, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua	29 min
Jun 22, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Baker	40 min
Jun 22, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clinch	40 min
Jun 22, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Pierce	43 min
Jun 22, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Brantley	30 min
Jun 22, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	40 min
Jun 22, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Brantley	44 min

Nearby

Dense Smoke Advisories in Georgia, 2011 Dense Smoke Advisories in Florida, 2011 Every dense smoke advisory in 2011

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.