Drought, Clay
- When
- February 1, 12:00 AM EST to February 28, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Clay forecast zone
- Reported by
- Newspaper
Keystone Heights...Lake Brooklyn dry with grass growing on the lake bed.
Drought in Florida, February 1 to 28, 2007
Dry conditions continued across north Florida.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS JAX wrote it up.
Dry conditions continued across north Florida.
What forecasters said that day
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 Jan 31, 9:55 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 9:55 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
955 PM EST WED JAN 31 2007
.SHORT TERM...MID-LAYER ISENTROPICALLY GENERATED CLOUDS HAVE INCREASED
OVER THE S 1/3 OF THE AREA THIS EVENING. ELSEWHERE..SKIES ARE MOSTLY
CLEAR AND TEMPS HAVE DROPPED RAPIDLY ACROSS THE AREA. A FEW SITES ARE
ALREADY BELOW GUIDANCE. HOWEVER...THESE TEMPS SHOULD LEVEL OFF SHORTLY
AND A SLOW INCREASE IN TEMPS IS ANTICIPATED AFTER MIDNIGHT AS WINDS
BECOME MORE SLY IN RESPONSE TO DEVELOPING GOMEX STORM SYSTEM. WILL
ADJUST ZFP TEMPS WORDING. IN ADDITION...FEEL THAT ONSET OF PRECIP WILL
HOLD OFF UNTIL AFTER 6 AM...AND WILL ADJUST POPS DOWN 10-20% OVERNIGHT.
&&
.AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THRU THU MORNING. MAIN THREAT
WILL BE INCREASING FLOW ABOVE THE SFC AND ASSOCIATED WIND SHEAR LATER
TONIGHT...AND THIS IS ALREADY WELL-COVERED IN TAFS.
&&
.MARINE...FCST APPEARS TO BE ON TRACK. ONLY MINOR VERBIAGE ADJUSTMENTS
EXPECTED.
&&
.JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...NONE.
GA...NONE.
AM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM THU MORNING TO FRI MORNING FOR
ALTAMAHA SOUND GA TO FLAGLER BEACH FL 20 NM TO 60 NM OFFSHORE.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM THURSDAY AFTN TO FRI MORNING FOR
ALTAMAHA SOUND GA TO FLAGLER BEACH FL OUT 20 NM.
&&
CARROLL/DEESEHazardous weather outlook, Jan 31, 10:40 PM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1040 PM EST WED JAN 31 2007 FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-011100- 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- 1040 PM EST WED JAN 31 2007 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THURSDAY... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT AS A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES. A LAKE WIND ADVISORY MAY BE REQUIRED THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT FOR SUSTAINED WINDS AROUND 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE... MAINLY ACROSS THE SUWANNEE RIVER VALLEY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND NEAR THE ATLANTIC COAST. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. GALE FORCE WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE COASTAL WATERS THURSDAY NIGHT. A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL INCREASE RAIN CHANCES ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS WEEKEND. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO NEAR FREEZING INLAND MONDAY AND TUESDAY MORNINGS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THURSDAY. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. CARROLL
Event by event
1 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Drought
- A drought reaching severe (D2) or worse on the US Drought Monitor, or with notable impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Extreme Cold in Illinois, February 1 to 19, 2007
- Tornadoes and Coastal Flood in Florida, February 1 to 2, 2007
- Winter Weather in Arkansas, February 1 to 2, 2007
- Cold in Wisconsin, February 1, 2007
- High Surf in Oregon, February 1, 2007
- Flood in Alaska, February 1 to 2, 2007
- Drought in Oklahoma, February 1 to 28, 2007
- Drought in Texas, February 1 to 28, 2007
- Winter Weather in Missouri, February 1, 2007
- Winter Weather in Texas, February 1 to 2, 2007
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Georgia, February 1, 2007
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in North Carolina, February 1, 2007
More
Every storm in Florida in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, February 2007
Sources
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: 37479.