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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2012, 6:48 PM EDT for Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 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
- Aug 14, 2012, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2012, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Nassau County, FL, Camden County, GA, Glynn County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 591 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Aug 14, 1:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 1:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 155 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT...TWO AREAS OF CONVECTION WILL AFFECT THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ONE AREA OVER NE FL IS THE INLAND MOVING WEST COAST SEABREEZE. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY INTENSIFY NEAR EAST COAST AS THEY ENCOUNTER THE EAST COAST SEABREEZE FRONT WHICH WILL NOT MOVE TOO FAR INLAND LIKE PREVIOUS EVENINGS. A SECOND AREA OF CONVECTION IS MOVING INTO SE GA WHICH IS BEING PRODUCED BY AN APPROACHING UPPER SHORT WAVE TROUGH. AIRMASS IS STILL DRY IN MID AND UPPER LEVELS SO EXPECT COVERAGE TO BE SCATTERED IN MOST AREAS. WILL ADD GUSTY WINDS TO FORECAST AS DRY AIR ENTRAINMENT BY STORMS WILL AID IN PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AT THE SURFACE. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE MAINLY NEAR OUTFLOW AND SEABREEZE COLLISIONS. ACTIVITY SHOULD DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET. .WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... VERY LITTLE CHANGE IN THE WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED WITH THE SURFACE RIDGE SOUTH OF THE AREA AND TROUGH TO THE NORTH. MID/UPPER TROUGH COVERS THE EASTERN U.S. A SERIES OF SHORTWAVE DISTURBANCES WILL ROTATE THROUGH THIS TROUGH ENHANCING THE SCATTERED DIURNAL SHOWERS/STORMS EACH DAY. STEERING FLOW WILL GUIDE THE CONVECTION FROM THE GULF COAST TO THE EAST COAST AND COLLIDE WITH THE ATLANTIC SEA BREEZE LATER IN THE AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE LATE AFTN STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WET DOWNBURSTS AND MINOR DAMAGE. .LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... LONG WAVE TROUGH WILL PERSIST FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO THE GULF COAST WHILE MID LEVEL HIGH STRETCHES ACROSS THE BAHAMAS AND FL STRAITS. INCREASING MOISTURE WILL PUSH PWATS ABOVE 2 INCHES OVER THE WEEKEND AS A COLD FRONT STALLS TO OUR NORTH. PIECES OF SHORTWAVE ENERGY MOVING THROUGH THE BASE OF THE TROUGH AND SURFACE LOWS RIDING NEWD ALONG THE FRONT WILL PROMOTE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL RAIN CHANCES THROUGH MONDAY. LATEST MODELS INDICATE THE TROUGH DEEPENS OVER LOCAL AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK POSSIBLY BRINGING IN COOLER TEMPS NEXT WEEK. WILL WAIT FOR MORE CONSISTENCY IN MODEL RUNS BEFORE ALTERING THE CURRENT POPS OR TEMPS. TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO BE NEAR NORMAL THROUGH THE WEEKEND. && .AVIATION... HAVE TEMPO IN GNV AND VQQ TAFS TIL 21Z WITH GUSTS TO 30KTS. VCTS AT CRG...JAX...AND SSI BUT MAY NEED TO BE UPGRADED TO TEMPO AS STORMS DEVELOP FURTHER THIS AFTERNOON. VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL AFTER 00Z. && .MARINE... WINDS WILL CONTINUE SOUTH TO SW THROUGH THE WEEKEND DUE TO A PERSISTENT RIDGE TO THE SOUTH AND TROUGH TO THE NORTH. NO HEADLINES ARE ANTICIPATED ALTHOUGH NOCTURNAL SURGES COULD PRODUCE SCEC CONDITIONS FOR A FEW HOURS. RIP CURRENTS: LOW RISK THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 73 93 72 94 / 30 30 30 20 SSI 77 91 77 91 / 20 20 20 20 JAX 73 94 74 93 / 30 30 30 30 SGJ 74 90 75 91 / 20 30 30 30 GNV 72 92 72 93 / 10 30 30 30 OCF 73 92 72 94 / 10 30 20 30 && .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. AM...NONE. && TRABERT/ZIBURA/WALKER
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 4:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 420 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012 FLZ021-022-035-036-142100- ALACHUA-COLUMBIA-GILCHRIST-SUWANNEE- 420 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWESTERN ALACHUA...SOUTHWESTERN COLUMBIA...NORTHEASTERN GILCHRIST AND SOUTHEASTERN SUWANNEE COUNTIES FOR STRONG WINDS AND EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING VALID UNTIL 500 PM EDT... AT 420 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WHITE...OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF ICHETUCKNEE SPRINGS STATE PARK...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND ICHETUCKNEE SPRINGS STATE PARK...HILDRETH...FORT WHITE...HIGH SPRINGS AND OLENO STATE PARK THROUGH 500 PM EDT. EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE. REPORT DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...OR YOU CAN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE DIRECTLY AT 1-800-499-1594. LAT...LON 3007 8263 2983 8252 2980 8285 2995 8289 TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 257DEG 18KT 2990 8274 NELSON
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 14, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Suwannee | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Marion | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Flagler | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Suwannee | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Saint Johns | 52 min |
| Aug 14, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Flagler | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Gilchrist | 40 min |
| Aug 14, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval | 24 min |
| Aug 14, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 72 min | |
| Aug 14, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Nassau | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Brantley | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Glynn | 27 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2012Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.