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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this special weather statement at Dec 19, 2021, 2:40 AM EST for Coffee County, Jeff Davis County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2021, 2:40 AM EST (07:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2021, 3:30 AM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
Counties Coffee County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Dec 19, 12:42 AM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 19, 12:42 AM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 1242 AM EST Sun Dec 19 2021 .AVIATION... [Through 06Z Monday] Showers are moving up from north-central will affect SGJ and in the vicinity of GNV for the next couple of hours. Otherwise, guidance is still supportive for low clouds and patchy fog to develop over TAF sites near and after 06z with a a chance of IFR in the pre-dawn hours due to low ceilings. Ceilings begin to lift after sunrise with MVFR CIGs in the morning and potentially lingering into the afternoon as scattered showers affect the TAF sites. Light south sfc winds tonight will become southwest Sunday, then shift to westerly late in the day as a cold front moves through the region. Low stratus will be possible tonight. && .PREV DISCUSSION [850 PM EST]... .NEAR TERM [Through Tonight]... Predominantly dry conditions for this afternoon with chances for showers occuring for areas south of the I-10 corridor later this evening. Showers advancing ahead of the approaching cold front will reach the westernmost portions of the forecast area by early Sunday morning along with possible patchy fog forming along the coast and potentially reaching inland during the early AM hours. High temperatures for today will reach up into the lower to mid 80s for inland areas and in upper 70s along the coastline. .SHORT TERM [Sunday Through Monday Night]... Showers with potential thunderstorms will move through the forecast area over the course of the weekend and into the beginning of next week as a cold front advances toward the region from out of the northwest. Front will advance into southeast Georgia on Sunday bringing showers and potential isolated thunderstorms with the front stalling over the forecast area overnight. South-southwesterly flow will build in on Monday and Tuesday with showers and a chance for thunderstorms building through the area in conjunction with a passing mid/upper level trough that is expected to move off over the Atlantic by Wednesday morning. Temperatures will drop with advance of the cold front into the the region on Sunday with high temps going from the upper 70s and lower 80s down into the 50s and 60s on Monday and Tuesday. Overnight low temperatures will similarly drop from out of the upper 50s and lower 60s down into the 40s and 30s. .LONG TERM [Tuesday Through Saturday]... Following the frontal passage, cold dry air will settle in over the southeastern US with initially breezy winds from out of the northwest becoming less blustery and more out of the southwest- west by the end of the week. Dry weather and clearing skies will build in through the later part of the week with temperatures going through a warming trend with temps building to near and above the climatological average by the end of the week. Low temperatures on Wednesday are expected to be in the 30s and 40s with a potential for late night and early morning frost. .MARINE... High pressure will continue to build to the east through tonight. A cold front approaches from the northwest Sunday morning and will move southeast across the area on Sunday. This boundary will stall across central Florida Sunday night into Monday. An area of low pressure will develop in the Gulf and move east along this boundary Monday night through Tuesday. This low will then move northeast, enter the coastal waters and continue up the east coast Tuesday night through Wednesday. Small craft advisory conditions are likely Sunday night into Wednesday over the local waters. Rip Currents: SE GA: Moderate through Sunday NE FL: Moderate through Sunday && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 75 47 55 44 53 / 60 10 40 70 80 SSI 76 52 57 50 60 / 60 20 50 80 90 JAX 78 55 60 53 64 / 50 20 60 80 80 SGJ 79 60 65 60 69 / 40 30 70 80 80 GNV 79 58 64 55 66 / 40 10 60 80 70 OCF 80 60 68 59 70 / 30 10 60 80 70 && .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. GA...None. AM...None. &&
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 19, 2:40 AM EST, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 1:59 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | JAX | 3 days | |
| Dec 19, 1:34 PM EST | Rip Current Statement | JAX | Duval, Flagler, Nassau | 60 hr |
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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.