A potent short wave trough passed across northeast Florida during the morning. Widespread areas of heavy rainfall with embedded storms impacted the area in the morning.
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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.
A potent short wave trough passed across northeast Florida during the morning. Widespread areas of heavy rainfall with embedded storms impacted the area in the morning.
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 May 16, 8:34 PM EST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 934 PM EDT SUN MAY 16 2010 .SHORT TERM...00Z KJAX SOUNDING SHOWED AN INCREASE IN PRECIP H2O TO 1.55 INCHES. SHOWERS AND TSTMS CONTINUE ACROSS INTERIOR AREAS OF SE GA AND TO A LESSER EXTENT NE FL. N/S LINE OF STORMS OVER SE GA IS MOVING NORTHERLY...SO EXPECT SOME TRAINING TO CONTINUE WITH SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE...GENERALLY FROM THE SWAMP TO E OF BAXLEY. PRECIP PATTERN IS MATCHING FAIRLY CLOSE TO 18Z NAM. EXPECT CONVECTION TO SLOWLY DECREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY DUE TO LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...BUT MAY BE SOME STORMS LASTING PAST MIDNIGHT. ZFP IS PRESENTLY ON TRACK. MAY UPDATE IT LATER IF POPS DECREASE ENUF. WILL ALSO WAIT A BIT BEFORE UPDATING HWO. && .AVIATION... CONVECTION THIS EVENING HAS REMAINED SAFELY AWAY FROM THE TERMINALS AND THAT SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE THE CASE THE REST OF THE EVENING. VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT...WITH SOME PATCHY MVFR FOG POSSIBLE AT GAINESVILLE. LOCALIZED MVFR TO POSSIBLY BRIEF PERIODS OF IFR WILL BE POSSIBLE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY. TOO EARLY TO PROVIDE ANY DETAILS ON TIMING AND LOCATION. && .MARINE... WINDS WILL CONTINUE OUT OF THE SOUTH/SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 KNOTS WITH SEAS IN THE 2 TO 4 FT RANGE TONIGHT. THE FORECAST IS ON TRACK AND THE EVENING PACKAGE WILL FEATURE NO CHANGES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 67 85 67 88 / 40 60 20 10 SSI 71 82 71 88 / 20 60 30 10 JAX 68 84 69 89 / 40 60 30 10 SGJ 71 85 71 87 / 20 60 30 30 GNV 67 86 68 90 / 40 60 30 20 OCF 69 87 69 89 / 40 60 30 20 && .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. AM...NONE. && CARROLL/SHULER/KEEGAN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 955 PM EDT SUN MAY 16 2010 FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-171000- HAMILTON-SUWANNEE-COLUMBIA-BAKER-NASSAU-DUVAL-UNION-BRADFORD-CLAY- ST JOHNS-GILCHRIST-ALACHUA-PUTNAM-FLAGLER-MARION-COFFEE- JEFF DAVIS-BACON-APPLING-WAYNE-ATKINSON-WARE-PIERCE-BRANTLEY- INLAND GLYNN-COASTAL GLYNN-ECHOLS-CLINCH-CHARLTON-INLAND CAMDEN- COASTAL CAMDEN- 955 PM EDT SUN MAY 16 2010 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDNIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. ACTIVITY WILL BE MOST WIDESPREAD ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA WHERE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT AND UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL BRING A GOOD CHANCE OF STORMS TO THE AREA MONDAY. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS... AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE IN COVERAGE AFTER TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT NEEDED AT THIS TIME. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV/JAX. PP/SEC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
730 PM EDT SUN MAY 16 2010
GAZ135-136-170000-
APPLING-WAYNE-
730 PM EDT SUN MAY 16 2010
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWESTERN
WAYNE AND EASTERN APPLING COUNTIES FOR STRONG WINDS VALID UNTIL 800
PM EDT...
AT 730 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF SURRENCY...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS
AROUND SURRENCY THROUGH 800 PM EDT. GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN
BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR WIND DAMAGE.
REPORT DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
LAT...LON 3190 8214 3189 8213 3190 8211 3187 8210
3183 8203 3179 8199 3179 8196 3166 8209
3175 8228 3191 8220
TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 210DEG 21KT 3179 8213
CARROLLThe Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:01 UTC.
2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
The county emergency operations center rain gauge measured 3.10 inches of rainfall since midnight.
Rainfall of 1.83 inches was measured in 30 minutes. Minor street flooding was observed.
The public reported a funnel cloud near the intersection of U.S. Highway 1 and Race Track Road.
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, May 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: 221138, 221137, 221136.