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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jacksonville, FL

October 5, 2012Flagler County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this special weather statement at Oct 5, 2012, 3:20 PM EDT for Flagler County, Florida. It was in force for 40 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: Oct 5, 2012, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: Oct 5, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

County Flagler County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 1936 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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.

Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 4, 4:00 PM EDT, 23 hours 20 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
400 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012

AMZ450-452-454-470-472-474-FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-
GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-051000-
ALTAMAHA SOUND GA TO FERNANDINA BEACH FL OUT 20 NM-
FERNANDINA BEACH TO ST AUGUSTINE FL OUT 20 NM-
ST AUGUSTINE TO FLAGLER BEACH FL OUT 20 NM-
ALTAMAHA SOUND GA TO FERNANDINA BEACH FL 20 NM TO 60 NM OFFSHORE-
FERNANDINA BEACH TO ST AUGUSTINE FL 20 NM TO 60 NM OFFSHORE-
ST AUGUSTINE TO FLAGLER BEACH FL 20 NM TO 60 NM OFFSHORE-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-
400 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012

...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTHEAST FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING...

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE
ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

A DIFFUSE FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER THE AREA WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE A
FOCUS FOR NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WILL BE OVER
NORTHEAST FLORIDA. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN
CONCERN.

AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA LATE TONIGHT AND
EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.

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

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEAST FLORIDA
FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

.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.

JCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 12:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Saint Johns	34 min
Oct 5, 1:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Clay, Saint Johns	115 min
Oct 5, 2:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Clay, Putnam, Saint Johns	60 min
Oct 5, 3:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Baker, Duval, Nassau	65 min
Oct 5, 4:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Marion	91 min
Oct 5, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Marion	41 min
Oct 5, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Gilchrist	49 min
Oct 5, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Marion	48 min
Oct 5, 5:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Alachua, Gilchrist	64 min
Oct 5, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua	30 min
Oct 5, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Marion	41 min
Oct 5, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Union	46 min
Oct 5, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua	52 min
Oct 5, 6:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Alachua, Columbia, Union	60 min
Oct 5, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Gilchrist	42 min
Oct 5, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Union	52 min
Oct 5, 6:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Gilchrist	83 min
Oct 5, 7:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Columbia	83 min
Oct 5, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Pierce	52 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.