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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 3, 2012Baker County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this special weather statement at Mar 3, 2012, 10:40 PM EST for Baker County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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 3, 2012, 10:40 PM EST (03:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2012, 11:15 PM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

County Baker County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 25 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: 184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 281 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 3, 9:26 PM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 9:26 PM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 9:53 PM EST, 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 3, 5:05 PM EST, 5 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 3, 7:42 PM EST, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 3, 8:31 PM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 3, 9:59 PM EST, 41 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
959 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012

FLZ020>023-GAZ150-163-164-040345-
BAKER-CHARLTON-CLINCH-COLUMBIA-HAMILTON-SUWANNEE-WARE-
959 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012

...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHEASTERN
WARE...SOUTHEASTERN CLINCH...NORTHWESTERN BAKER...NORTHERN
COLUMBIA...SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON...CENTRAL SUWANNEE AND CENTRAL
CHARLTON COUNTIES FOR STRONG WINDS VALID UNTIL 1045 PM EST...

AT 958 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST
OF TAYLOR TO HOUSTON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THESE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND HOUSTON...BELMONT...WHITE
SPRINGS...WELLBORN...SUWANNEE VALLEY...WINFIELD AND TAYLOR THROUGH
1045 PM EST. GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH
POSSIBLE MINOR WIND DAMAGE.

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

LAT...LON 3059 8260 3059 8259 3061 8258 3068 8249
      3070 8204 3065 8205 3061 8202 3025 8242
      3019 8308
TIME...MOT...LOC 0258Z 256DEG 42KT 3059 8245 3025 8289

PRESNALL

Special weather statement, Mar 3, 10:40 PM EST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
1040 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012

FLZ022>025-GAZ150-164-040415-
BAKER-CHARLTON-COLUMBIA-DUVAL-NASSAU-WARE-
1040 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012

...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHEASTERN
WARE...NORTHERN BAKER...EASTERN COLUMBIA...SOUTHERN CHARLTON...
WESTERN DUVAL AND WESTERN NASSAU COUNTIES FOR STRONG WINDS VALID
UNTIL 1115 PM EST...

AT 1040 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ST. GEORGE TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TAYLOR...MOVING EAST
AT 55 MPH. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND
TAYLOR...HILLIARD...ST. GEORGE...CALLAHAN...RATLIFF AND BRYCEVILLE
THROUGH 1115 PM EST. GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR WIND DAMAGE.

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

LAT...LON 3035 8185 3030 8251 3073 8226 3078 8179
      3076 8178 3077 8176 3075 8172
TIME...MOT...LOC 0340Z 261DEG 47KT 3066 8210 3034 8238

PRESNALL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 7:42 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Hamilton	48 min
Mar 3, 8:31 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Hamilton	44 min
Mar 3, 9:59 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Columbia	46 min
Mar 3, 11:08 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		97 min
Mar 4, 2:16 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	8 hr
Mar 4, 3:57 AM EST	Fire Weather Watch	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	22 hr
Mar 4, 3:57 AM EST	Red Flag Warning	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	14 hr
Mar 4, 4:08 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Marion, Putnam	67 min
Mar 4, 4:24 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		2 hr
Mar 4, 4:42 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler, Marion, Putnam, Saint Johns	48 min
Mar 4, 5:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler	32 min
Mar 4, 5:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler	15 min
Mar 4, 6:32 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		58 min
Mar 4, 10:36 AM EST	Wind Advisory	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	7 hr
Mar 3, 11:06 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden	24 min

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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.