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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 28, 2011Bradford County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this special weather statement at Mar 28, 2011, 4:01 AM EDT for Bradford County, Florida. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 2011, 4:01 AM EDT (08:01 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2011, 4:30 AM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

County Bradford County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 147 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 27, 9:35 PM EDT, 6 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 9:35 PM EDT, 6 hours 26 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
935 PM EDT SUN MAR 27 2011

.UPDATE...SEVERE WEATHER EVENT HAS ENDED...ALTHOUGH ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT FORMS
MAY BECOME STRONG...WITH THE MAIN CONCERN OF HAIL AS TEMPERATURES
ALOFT ARE QUITE COLD FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL
LIKELY INCREASE LATE TONIGHT OVER NORTHEAST FLORIDA...ESPECIALLY
FROM GAINESVILLE SOUTHWARD AS STRONG DYNAMICS (I.E., 700/300 MB
COUPLET) RE-ESTABLISHES. ZFP HAS BEEN UPDATED.

&&

.AVIATION...
LOW CEILINGS WILL FIRST IMPACT SSI TONIGHT ON NORTHEAST WINDS
BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. VLIFR CEILINGS WILL BE POSSIBLE THERE LATE
TONIGHT. LOW CEILINGS WILL THEN SPREAD OVER THE JACKSONVILLE AREA
TERMINALS MONDAY MORNING. BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS
WILL BE AT GNV TOMORROW.

&&

.MARINE...
SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL BECOME NE LATE TONIGHT OVER GA WATERS
AND MONDAY OVER NE FL WATERS AS COLD FRONT MOVES DOWN THE COAST.
WILL CONTINUE TO USE NAM12 WINDS WHICH ARE A LITTLE FASTER THAN
GFS WITH FRONTAL POSITION. NO HEADLINES WILL BE NEEDED. FORECAST
IS IN GOOD SHAPE AND NO CHANGES WILL BE MADE WITH THE EVENING
FORECAST PACKAGE.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AMG  57  69  49  70 /  30  40  20  20
SSI  60  67  53  67 /  60  40  20  20
JAX  62  75  55  71 /  50  50  30  20
SGJ  64  74  59  71 /  50  60  30  30
GNV  62  79  58  76 /  60  70  30  20
OCF  62  80  61  79 /  60  70  40  30

&&

.JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...NONE.
GA...NONE.
AM...NONE.
&&

ZAPPE/SHULER/WALKER

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 28, 3:02 AM EDT, 59 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
302 AM EDT MON MAR 28 2011

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-291000-
ALACHUA-APPLING-ATKINSON-BACON-BAKER-BRADFORD-BRANTLEY-
CAMDEN (COASTAL)-CAMDEN (INLAND)-CHARLTON-CLAY-CLINCH-COFFEE-
COLUMBIA-DUVAL-ECHOLS-FLAGLER-GILCHRIST-GLYNN (COASTAL)-
GLYNN (INLAND)-HAMILTON-JEFF DAVIS-MARION-NASSAU-PIERCE-PUTNAM-
ST JOHNS-SUWANNEE-UNION-WARE-WAYNE-
302 AM EDT MON MAR 28 2011

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT...

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR INLAND NORTHEAST FLORIDA
UNTIL 10 AM EDT...
...AREAS OF SMOKE WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR INLAND NORTHEAST
FLORIDA UNTIL 9 AM EDT. REFER TO THE WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION
FOR MORE DETAILS.

AREAS OF SMOKE WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA DUE TO SEVERAL
ONGOING WILDFIRES. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE OVERNIGHT AS A
COLD FRONT HAS NOW ENTERED SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. USE CAUTION WHEN
DRIVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AS VISIBILITIES MAY BE REDUCED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...

A SERIES OF FAST MOVING DISTURBANCES COMING IN FROM THE GULF OF
MEXICO WILL BRING A CONTINUED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR MUCH OF
NEXT WEEK. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO SELF-ACTIVATE IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED FOR
YOUR AREA EARLY THIS MORNING.

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

ECZ/PP

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 27, 10:09 PM EDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1009 PM EDT SUN MAR 27 2011

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

0700 PM     WILDFIRE         10 NW HOMERVILLE        31.13N 82.89W
03/27/2011                   CLINCH             GA   PARK/FOREST SRVC

            ARABIA BAY WILDFIRE NOW 45 PERCENT CONTAINED. RESIDENTS
            EVACUATED SATURDAY EVENING HAVE RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES.

0700 PM     WILDFIRE         3 ESE NICHOLLS          31.50N 82.59W
03/27/2011                   BACON              GA   PARK/FOREST SRVC

            SESSOMS COMMUNITY WILDFIRE NOW AT 22,250 ACRES BURNED
            ACROSS SOUTHWEST BACON AND NORTHERN WARE COUNTIES. THE
            FIRE IS NOW 45 PERCENT CONTAINED.

0700 PM     WILDFIRE         3 SSW BROXTON           31.58N 82.91W
03/27/2011                   COFFEE             GA   PARK/FOREST SRVC

            THE MOSELEY ROAD WILDFIRE HAS BURNED 1595 ACRES AND IS
            NOW 90 PERCENT CONTAINED.

0700 PM     WILDFIRE         SE WAVERLY              31.09N 81.72W
03/27/2011                   CAMDEN             GA   PARK/FOREST SRVC

            THE MARY FIELDS PLANTATION WILDFIRE IN MOSTLY MARSH AREAS
            SOUTHWEST OF KINGSLAND HAS BURNED 2500 ACRES AND IS NOW
            25 PERCENT CONTAINED.

&&

SHULER

Special weather statement, Mar 28, 2:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
245 AM EDT MON MAR 28 2011

FLZ035-036-280730-
ALACHUA-GILCHRIST-
245 AM EDT MON MAR 28 2011

...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN ALACHUA
AND GILCHRIST COUNTIES FOR STRONG WINDS AND HAIL VALID UNTIL 330 AM
EDT...

AT 243 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON...OR 11
MILES SOUTH OF CROSS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS AROUND TRENTON...BELL AND NEWBERRY
THROUGH 330 AM EDT. HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTER INCH IN DIAMETER AND
GUSTY WINDS OF 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR
DAMAGE.

REPORT DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM EDT MONDAY
MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2966 8295 2969 8296 2975 8294 2976 8295
      2990 8280 2963 8242 2954 8266 2956 8267
      2956 8275 2958 8278 2960 8295 2964 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 0643Z 241DEG 36KT 2949 8306

SHASHY

Special weather statement, Mar 28, 4:01 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
401 AM EDT MON MAR 28 2011

FLZ031-032-036-280830-
ALACHUA-BRADFORD-CLAY-
401 AM EDT MON MAR 28 2011

...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHERN
ALACHUA...SOUTHERN BRADFORD AND SOUTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTIES FOR SMALL
HAIL VALID UNTIL 430 AM EDT...

AT 401 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 12 MILES WEST OF WALDO...OR 6 MILES
NORTH OF GAINESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS AROUND WALDO...SAMPSON...
HAMPTON...STARKE...LAKE GENEVA AND KEYSTONE HEIGHTS THROUGH 430 AM
EDT. HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTER INCH IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG
WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE.

REPORT DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM EDT
MONDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 3002 8203 2978 8197 2968 8233 2982 8241
TIME...MOT...LOC 0801Z 248DEG 32KT 2977 8234

SHASHY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 2:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Gilchrist	45 min
Mar 28, 3:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Gilchrist	52 min
Mar 28, 4:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Suwannee	24 min
Mar 28, 8:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	34 min
Mar 28, 9:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Marion	62 min
Mar 28, 10:09 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		66 min
Mar 28, 11:13 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		92 min
Mar 28, 11:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Baker	46 min
Mar 27, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	51 min
Mar 28, 6:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clinch, Echols	41 min
Mar 28, 6:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clinch, Echols	46 min
Mar 28, 7:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	28 min
Mar 28, 9:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Appling, Jeff Davis	43 min
Mar 28, 9:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Coffee	46 min
Mar 28, 10:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Wayne	30 min
Mar 28, 10:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	48 min
Mar 28, 10:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden	31 min
Mar 28, 10:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Bacon	44 min
Mar 28, 10:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden	50 min
Mar 28, 11:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Glynn	27 min
Mar 28, 11:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Wayne	34 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.