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High Surf Advisory 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 12, 2018Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this high surf advisory at Sep 12, 2018, 3:14 PM EDT for Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It took effect at Sep 12, 2018, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 12, 2018, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 12, 2018, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired
Sep 13, 2018, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Camden County, GA, Glynn County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 249 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 2018-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1161 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 2018-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 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
1161 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-26 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 high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Sep 12, 9:32 AM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 9:32 AM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 11, 10:59 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXAlachua2 hr
Sep 11, 11:24 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXAlachua, Marion2 hr
Sep 12, 2:55 AM EDTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasJAX48 hr
Sep 11, 9:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAtkinson46 min
Sep 11, 10:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare37 min
Sep 11, 10:41 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXAtkinson, Ware2 hr
Sep 11, 11:22 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXClinch113 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.