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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2014, 6:04 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Florida; Echols County, Georgia. It was in force for 21 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2014, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2014, 6:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hamilton County, FL, Echols County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1405 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 21, 2:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 207 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 2014 ...AFTERNOON AND EVENING PULSE THUNDERSTORMS... .SHORT TERM...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO BLOSSOM THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE AND RIVER BREEZE OVER NE FL...WITH A STRONGER CAP OVER SE GA SUPPRESSING CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT...BUT NOT FOR LONG. STILL ANTICIPATE TSTORMS WILL POP OVER SE GA THIS AFTN INTO THE EVENING AS THE AIRMASS DESTABILIZES AHEAD OF A TROUGH AXIS SLIDING DOWN THE SE ATLANTIC COAST. THIS BOUNDARY ALONG WITH THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE AND RESULTANT OUTFLOWS WILL PROVIDE ENOUGH LOW LEVEL FORCING OVER A HIGHLY UNSTABLE AND MOIST AIRMASS TO BRING TSTORM ACTIVITY WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS TO SE GA. CONTINUED TO ADVERTISE 40-50% RAIN CHANCES ACROSS INLAND SECTIONS BETWEEN I-75 AND I-95...WITH LOWER CHANCES TO 20-30% ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST. MAIN CONVECTIVE CONCERNS WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WET DOWNBURST WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 2-3 INCHES PER HOUR POSSIBLE IN SLOW MOVING STORM CELLS. TEMPS WILL RISE INTO THE LOW/MID 90S...WITH COOLER THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOWS DROPPING TEMPS INTO THE LOW/MID 70S. THIS EVENING MOST TSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE ONGOING OVER SE GA WITH DECREASING ACTIVITY OVER NE. PRECIPITATION COVERAGE AND INTENSITY WILL DECREASE WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING AFTER SUNSET...WITH A GRADUALLY PUSH IN PRECIP TO THE SOUTH AS THE FRONTAL ZONE DROPS FARTHER SOUTH OVER CENTRAL GA. THIS REGIME WILL CONTINUE A MOIST WESTERLY FLOW OVER THE AREA...WITH PRECIP LIKELY GETTING AN EARLY START ONCE AGAIN SUNDAY MORNING NEAR THE GULF COAST REGION. A MOIST AND HUMID NIGHT EXPECTED UNDER PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH MIN TEMPS FALL INTO THE LOW 70S INLAND TO MID 70S ALONG THE ST JOHNS RIVER BASIN AND ATLANTIC COAST. .SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...A WEST TO NORTHWEST STEERING FLOW WILL PERSIST THROUGH TUESDAY WITH TROUGHING TO THE NORTH. DAILY CONVECTION EXPECTED AS MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY REMAIN HIGH WITH SEA BREEZES MERGING LATE DAY NEAR THE EAST COAST. STORMS COULD LINGER INTO THE OVERNIGHT AS UPPER TROUGHING DEVELOPS AFTERNOON STORMS TO THE NORTH...WHICH MAY THEN ADVECT INTO OUR SE GA COUNTIES DURING THE LATE EVENING. TEMPERATURES AND POPS WILL BE AT OR ABOVE CLIMO LEVELS. .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...RIDGE TO THE SOUTH AND TROUGHING TO THE NORTH WILL HOLD THROUGH THE PERIOD. A WESTERLY STEERING FLOW WITH PWATS AT OR ABOVE AVERAGE WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED DAILY CONVECTION...BECOMING NUMEROUS NEAR THE EAST COAST AS SEA BREEZES MERGE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES WILL BE MOSTLY LOW 70S/LOW 90S. && .AVIATION...PREVAILING VFR CONDITIONS WITH VCTS ADVERTISED AT ALL TERMINALS BETWEEN 18-21Z. TEMPO MVFR TO POSSIBLY IFR EXPECTED IN THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL DECREASE AFTER SUNSET WITH SOME PATCHY FOG FORMATION POSSIBLE WHERE HEAVY RAINFALL RECENTLY FELL...BUT NOT LIKELY GIVEN LINGERING DEBRIS CLOUDS AND ELEVATED WEST WINDS. && .MARINE...SSW WINDS 10 KTS THIS EVENING WILL INCREASE TO WEST 15 KNOTS AS A SURFACE TROUGH SINKS SOUTHWARD ALONG THE SE ATLANTIC COAST. PREVAILING WSW WINDS 10-15 KTS ARE EXPECTED SUN THROUGH THU WITH SEAS 2-4 FT. MAY SEE AN INCREASE IN EAST SWELLS ON SUNDAY AND SUN NIGHT DUE TO THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFFSHORE OF THE JAX COAST TRACKING ENE. RIP CURRENTS: LOW RISK TODAY. ELEVATED RISK POSSIBLE SUNDAY DUE TO EASTERLY SWELLS FROM LOW PRESSURE OFFSHORE OF THE JAX COAST. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 96 72 95 72 / 40 40 50 40 SSI 91 77 89 75 / 20 30 60 60 JAX 95 73 94 73 / 40 40 60 60 SGJ 91 75 90 73 / 30 30 60 60 GNV 94 73 91 71 / 40 40 50 40 OCF 93 73 91 71 / 50 30 50 30 && .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. AM...NONE. && ENYEDI/ZIBURA/GUILLET
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 5:17 AM EDT, 12 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 517 AM EDT SAT JUN 21 2014 AMZ450-452-454-470-472-474-FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040- GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-220845- 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- 517 AM EDT SAT JUN 21 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA... SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NEAR THE GULF COAST THIS AFTERNOON AND SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE REGION BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG ESPECIALLY NEAR INTERSTATE 95 LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN CONCERNS WILL BE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY. A FEW STORMS MAY BE STRONG. .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. PP
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Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 8:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Marion | 51 min |
| Jun 20, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Union | 45 min |
| Jun 20, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Union | 41 min |
| Jun 20, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Alachua | 30 min |
| Jun 20, 9:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JAX | Alachua, Marion | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 9:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Alachua, Gilchrist | 41 min |
| Jun 21, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Alachua | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Flagler | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Union | 51 min |
| Jun 21, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bradford, Clay, Union | 28 min |
| Jun 21, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Gilchrist | 33 min |
| Jun 21, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Clay | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Bradford, Union | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Saint Johns | 23 min |
| Jun 21, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Saint Johns | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 63 min | |
| Jun 21, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 60 min | |
| Jun 21, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Atkinson | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Atkinson | 51 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014
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.