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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 24, 2015Bradford County, Clay County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2015, 4:31 PM EDT for Bradford County, Clay County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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 24, 2015, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2015, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1195 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 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.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 2:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 3:35 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 1:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
147 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

FLZ040-241815-
MARION FL-
147 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN MARION COUNTY UNTIL
215 PM EDT...

AT 147 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES SOUTH OF RAINBOW LAKES ESTATES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE IN DIAMETER AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH
CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OCALA...RAINBOW LAKES ESTATES...OCALA AIRPORT...DUNNELLON AND STOKES
FERRY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REPORT DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

LAT...LON 2902 8240 2902 8242 2905 8247 2904 8250
      2904 8253 2906 8253 2921 8242 2922 8240
      2923 8240 2938 8228 2920 8205 2897 8232
TIME...MOT...LOC 1747Z 220DEG 19KT 2904 8242

SHASHY

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 3:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:43 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:59 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 4:23 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Marion	28 min
Jun 24, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Marion	36 min
Jun 24, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua	37 min
Jun 24, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua	30 min
Jun 24, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Union	17 min
Jun 24, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Union	31 min
Jun 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Columbia, Union	33 min
Jun 24, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay	20 min
Jun 24, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia	28 min
Jun 24, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval	25 min
Jun 24, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Columbia	29 min
Jun 24, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Putnam	48 min
Jun 24, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler, Putnam, Saint Johns	31 min
Jun 24, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler, Saint Johns	30 min
Jun 24, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler	30 min
Jun 24, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Echols	22 min
Jun 24, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clinch	17 min
Jun 24, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clinch	25 min
Jun 24, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2015 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.