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Flood Watch 5, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this flood watch at Oct 5, 2016, 4:11 PM EDT for 6 counties in Florida; 7 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Oct 6, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 45 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 2016, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 6, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2016, 4:36 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Wayne County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 812 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Oct 5, 10:50 AM EDT, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 10:50 AM EDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 5, 11:38 AM EDT, 4 hours 33 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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| Oct 4, 9:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 94 min |
| Oct 5, 5:46 AM EDT | Hurricane Watch | JAX | Duval, Flagler, Nassau | 24 hr |
| Oct 5, 5:46 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | JAX | Baker, Bradford, Union | 24 hr |
| Oct 5, 10:47 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JAX | Saint Johns | 88 min |
| Oct 5, 11:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Saint Johns | 52 min |
| Oct 5, 11:52 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JAX | Clay, Putnam, Saint Johns | 113 min |
| Oct 5, 1:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JAX | Clay, Flagler, Putnam, Saint Johns | 113 min |
| Oct 5, 1:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | JAX | Flagler, Putnam, Saint Johns | 2 hr |
| Oct 5, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 89 min | |
| Oct 5, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 88 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.