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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 18, 2014Marion County, Putnam County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 2014, 7:02 PM EDT for Marion County, Putnam County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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
Sep 18, 2014, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Sep 18, 2014, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Marion County, FL, Putnam County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2014-09-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 870 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2014-09-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
870 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 17, 7:50 PM EDT, 23 hours 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 17, 11:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX60 min
Sep 18, 6:30 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX90 min
Sep 18, 6:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPutnam24 min
Sep 18, 6:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPutnam18 min
Sep 18, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXMarion, Putnam47 min
Sep 17, 8:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare24 min
Sep 17, 8:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare46 min
Sep 17, 10:32 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXCharlton, Clinch, Ware88 min
Sep 17, 11:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXGlynn52 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.