Persistent onshore flow with near shore winds 15 to 20 knots combined with buildings wells of 3-5 ft with periods of 11 to 15 seconds from distant tropical cyclones produced dangerous rip currents along the north Florida coast over the weekend. Many rip current rescues were done.
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 episode as NWS JAX wrote it up.
Persistent onshore flow with near shore winds 15 to 20 knots combined with buildings wells of 3-5 ft with periods of 11 to 15 seconds from distant tropical cyclones produced dangerous rip currents along the north Florida coast over the weekend. Many rip current rescues were done.
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 Aug 27, 8:05 PM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
905 PM EDT FRI AUG 27 2010
...RECORD STREAKS COME TO AN END AT AMG AND JAX...
.PUBLIC UPDATE...SURFACE FRONTAL BOUNDARY HAS ALL BUT DISSIPATED.
LOCAL OBS INDICATE MAINLY LIGHT WINDS...WITH A FEW COASTAL SITES
REPORTING ONSHORE WINDS SUSTAINED NEAR 10 MPH. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE
WILL REMAIN ANCHORED NORTH OF THE AREA WITH AN INVERTED TROUGH
LIKELY FORMING OVER THE LOCAL COASTAL WATERS OVERNIGHT.
DOPPLER RADAR CURRENTLY SHOWS NUMEROUS LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS OVER
THE JACKSONVILLE METRO AREA EXTENDING SOUTHWARD TO MARION COUNTY.
THESE SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO WORK EASTWARD AND WEAKEN OVER THE
NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. AS THE COASTAL TROUGH ESTABLISHES LATER
TONIGHT...SOME OF THE COASTAL SHOWERS WILL LIKELY SPREAD ONSHORE
BEFORE DISSIPATING.
MSAS ANALYSIS INDICATES THE ATMOSPHERE HAS QUICKLY STABILIZED...AND
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. ZFP
HAS BEEN UPDATED.
&&
.AVIATION...
THIS FORECAST WILL REMAIN RATHER OPTIMISTIC WITH RESPECT TO
CEILING HEIGHTS OVERNIGHT. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CECIL...CEILINGS
ARE IN THE 4000 TO 8000 FT RANGE HERE EARLY THIS EVENING. THIS
GENERAL TREND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE. WILL INCLUDE MVFR TEMPO
GROUP FOR FOG IMPACTS AT CECIL ONLY. FLOW WILL BECOME NORTHEAST
AND GUSTY (UP TO AROUND 20 KNOTS) SATURDAY AFTERNOON. MOSTLY
CLOUDY CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL WITH CEILINGS PRIMARILY JUST ABOVE
MVFR LEVELS...HOWEVER LOWER CEILINGS CAN BE EXPECTED IN PASSING
SHOWER ACTIVITY.
&&
.MARINE...
WINDS ARE MOSTLY LIGHT AND VARIABLE AT THIS HOUR DUE TO MESO HIGH
THAT HAS FORMED ALONG THE COAST. AS A RESULT...WINDS MAY BE A
LITTLE SLOWER TO TURN THE NORTHEAST. WILL TAKE A QUICK PEAK AT THE
0Z NAM WHEN IT COMES IN TO MAKE FINAL DETERMINATION ON WHETHER
SOME CHANGES MAY BE NEEDED FOR THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AMG 72 90 71 89 / 20 40 30 30
SSI 78 86 75 86 / 20 50 30 30
JAX 74 87 74 87 / 40 60 30 40
SGJ 76 86 76 86 / 60 60 40 40
GNV 72 88 72 88 / 40 60 40 50
OCF 73 90 72 88 / 40 50 40 50
&&
.JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...NONE.
GA...NONE.
AM...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FROM 10 AM SATURDAY TO 4 AM EDT MONDAY FOR
ALTAMAHA SOUND GA TO FERNANDINA BEACH FL 20 NM TO 60 NM
OFFSHORE-FERNANDINA BEACH TO ST AUGUSTINE FL 20 NM TO 60 NM
OFFSHORE-ST AUGUSTINE TO FLAGLER BEACH FL 20 NM TO 60 NM
OFFSHORE.
&&
ZAPPE/SHULER/PRESNALLHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 832 PM EDT FRI AUG 27 2010 FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-281000- 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- 832 PM EDT FRI AUG 27 2010 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE ON SATURDAY WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE. BREEZY NORTHEAST FLOW OVER THE WEEKEND AND CONTINUING INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WILL LEAD TO A HIGHER RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST AS WELL AS POSSIBLE SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV/JAX. ECZ
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
The Jacksonville Beach Life Guard station performed a total of 6 rip current rescues over the weekend. One near drowning occurred around 8:30 am in the morning at Jacksonville Beach before the life guards were on duty. The woman was rescued by Jacksonville Beach Fire Rescue then taken to the hospital in critical condition.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, August 2010
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: 246525.