1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Mar 23, 9:42 AM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
942 AM EST TUE MAR 23 2004
.UPDATE...VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATING CLEAR SKIES ACROSS
MUCH OF THE LAND AREAS OF N FL AND SE GA. HOWEVER...EXTENSIVE
STRATO-CU ACROSS THE OFFSHORE AND COASTAL WATERS WAS BEGINNING
TO MOVE ASHORE FLAGLER COUNTY. WITH THE 1000-850 MB MEAN WIND NE
TODAY...EXPECT SOME OF THESE CLOUDS TO MAKE IT INLAND ACROSS THE SE
PORTION OF THE CWA AS INDICATED BY THE MESO-ETA MEAN 1000-850 MB RH.
WILL UPDATE MARION AND PUTNAM AFTERNOON ZONE FORECASTS TO PARTLY
CLOUDY. THE REST OF THE PREVIOUS ZONE PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD WITH NO
OTHER UPDATES PLANNED FOR NOW.
&&
.MARINE...WILL CONTINUE SCA CONDITIONS ALL LEGS.
&&
.JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FERNANDINA BCH TO FLAGLER BCH OUT 60 NM.
RED FLAG WARNING FLZ020>023-030-031-035-036-040.
GA...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY ALTAMAHA TO FERNANDINA BCH OUT 60 NM.
RED FLAG WARNING GAZ132>135-149-150-162-163.
&&
PP/MTHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1130 AM EST TUE MAR 23 2004 FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-232230- ALACHUA-APPLING-ATKINSON-BACON-BAKER-BRADFORD-BRANTLEY- CAMDEN (COASTAL)-CAMDEN (INLAND)-CHARLTON-CLAY-CLINCH-COFFEE- COLUMBIA-DUVAL-ECHOLS-FLAGLER-GILCHRIST-GLYNN (COASTAL)- GLYNN (INLAND)-HAMILTON-JEFF DAVIS-MARION-NASSAU-PIERCE-PUTNAM- ST JOHNS-SUWANNEE-UNION-WARE-WAYNE- 1130 AM EST TUE MAR 23 2004 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES TODAY... THERE WILL BE A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES TODAY. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST SURF ZONE FORECAST FOR MORE INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... A HIGH RISK OF RISK CURRENTS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ON WEDNESDAY. SEE THE LATEST SURF ZONE FORECAST FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. MKT
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Gusty winds and low relative humidity values allowed a wildfire to develop along U.S. Highway 1 south of County Road 210. 56 acres were burned and southbound traffic on U.S. Highway 1 was rerouted to County Road 210. Northbound traffic was rerouted to Interstate 95.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, March 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5386534.