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High Surf Advisory 5, NWS Jacksonville, FL

November 5, 2011Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this high surf advisory at Nov 5, 2011, 3:56 AM EDT for Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It took effect at Nov 5, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 5, 2011, 3:56 AM EDT (07:56 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 5, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired
Nov 9, 2011, 3:27 AM EST
In force
4 days
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

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

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:57 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 253 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, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2011-11-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2011-11-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 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 high surf 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 high surf advisory went out at Nov 4, 4:52 PM EDT, 11 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 4, 4:52 PM EDT, 11 hours 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 4, 8:24 PM EDTLake Wind AdvisoryJAXFlagler, Nassau24 hr
Nov 5, 3:56 AM EDTRip Current StatementJAXFlagler, Nassau5 days

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Florida, 2011High Surf Advisories in Georgia, 2011Every high surf 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.