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High Surf Advisory 6, NWS Jacksonville, FL

November 10, 2011Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this high surf advisory at Nov 10, 2011, 8:07 AM EST for Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 2011, 8:07 AM EST (13:07 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 11 hr
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 13:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 16 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: 1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 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 10, 4:04 AM EST, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 10, 4:04 AM EST, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 10, 4:19 AM EST, 3 hours 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
419 AM EST THU NOV 10 2011

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-110930-
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-
419 AM EST THU NOV 10 2011

...WIND CHILLS BELOW FREEZING FRIDAY MORNING...

...HEAVY FROST POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT...

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

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

A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE REGION AND USHER IN MUCH
COLDER CONDITIONS. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE 30S AND 40S
TONIGHT. WIND CHILLS BELOW FREEZING ARE EXPECTED NORTH AND
WEST OF THE ST JOHNS RIVER LATE TONIGHT/EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

CLEAR SKIES AND CALM WINDS WILL RESULT IN CONDITIONS HIGHLY
FAVORABLE FOR FROST FORMATION ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND INLAND
NORTHEAST FLORIDA FRIDAY NIGHT. FROST ADVISORIES AND/OR FREEZE
WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA FRIDAY
NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME.

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

JDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 9, 9:58 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	JAX		5 hr
Nov 10, 3:04 AM EST	Gale Watch	JAX		11 hr
Nov 10, 3:04 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		42 hr
Nov 10, 3:04 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	JAX		16 hr
Nov 10, 8:07 AM EST	Rip Current Statement	JAX	Flagler, Nassau	11 hr
Nov 10, 1:35 PM EST	Freeze Watch	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union	16 hr
Nov 10, 1:44 PM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAX	Flagler, Nassau	16 hr
Nov 10, 1:51 PM EST	Gale Warning	JAX		19 hr

Nearby

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