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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 24, 2024Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this wind advisory at Mar 24, 2024, 2:33 AM EDT for Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It took effect at Mar 24, 2024, 7:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 24, 2024, 2:33 AM EDT (06:33 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 24, 2024, 7:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 24, 2024, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 9 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 06:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 6.6 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-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: 690 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 23, 5:45 PM EDT, 8 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 5:45 PM EDT, 8 hours 48 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
Mar 24, 3:26 AM EDT	High Surf Advisory	JAX	Duval, Flagler, Nassau	47 hr

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.