A persistent upper level ridge was over the SE region. Despite a strong inversion, enough diurnal instability combined with a prevailing west coast sea breeze and outflows as well as a lingering frontal boundary occurred to spawn scattered severe afternoon and evening thunderstorms.
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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 persistent upper level ridge was over the SE region. Despite a strong inversion, enough diurnal instability combined with a prevailing west coast sea breeze and outflows as well as a lingering frontal boundary occurred to spawn scattered severe afternoon and evening thunderstorms.
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 Jul 1, 7:01 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
801 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012
.UPDATE...THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL GA ARE DROPPING SOUTH INTO SE
GA THIS EVENING. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL
OCCUR OVER ALTAMAHA RIVER AREA BEFORE WEAKENING OCCURS. WILL UP
POPS OVER SE GA THIS EVENING. ANTOHER EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN
EFFECT FOR SE GA MONDAY.
&&
.AVIATION...MOSTLY VFR THROUGH MONDAY. HAVE VCTS AT SSI FOR THIS
EVENING AS CONVECTION MAY COME CLOSE.
&&
.MARINE...SW WINDS NEAR 15 KNOTS WITH SEAS 2 TO 3 FEET TO
CONTINUE.
RIP CURRENTS: LOW RISK
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
AMG 76 97 76 96 / 20 20 20 20
SSI 80 91 78 96 / 20 20 20 20
JAX 75 97 75 96 / 10 20 10 10
SGJ 75 94 75 93 / 10 10 10 10
GNV 72 93 72 93 / 10 10 10 10
OCF 72 94 72 93 / 10 10 10 20
&&
.JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...NONE.
GA...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY
EVENING FOR APPLING-ATKINSON-BACON-BRANTLEY-COASTAL GLYNN-
COFFEE-INLAND GLYNN-JEFF DAVIS-PIERCE-WAYNE.
AM...NONE.
&&
ZIBURA/NELSONHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 805 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012 AMZ450-452-454-470-472-474-FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040- GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-030015- ALTAMAHA SOUND GA TO FERNANDINA BEACH FL OUT 20 NM- FERNANDINA BEACH TO ST AUGUSTINE FL OUT 20 NM- ST AUGUSTINE TO FLAGLER BEACH FL OUT 20 NM- 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-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- 805 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA... ...RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS FOR THE ST. MARYS RIVER...SUWANNEE RIVER AND SANTA FE RIVER... ...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH FOR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA MONDAY AFTERNOON... ...HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY IN THE WEEK... .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. A SQUALL LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD INTO PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING STRIKES. HISTORIC RIVER FLOODING IS ONGOING ALONG THE ALONG THE ST. MARYS RIVER IN PORTIONS OF BAKER...NASSAU...CAMDEN...AND CHARLTON COUNTIES. MAJOR FLOODING IS CURRENTLY ONGOING ALONG THE SUWANNEE RIVER IN PORTIONS OF COLUMBIA AND HAMILTON COUNTIES. MAJOR FLOODING IS FORECAST ALONG THE SANTA FE RIVERS IN PORTIONS OF ALACHUA...BRADFORD...COLUMBIA...GILCHRIST...SUWANNEE...AND UNION COUNTIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES REACHING 95 TO 100 DEGREES WILL CONTINUE MONDAY. HEAT INDICES WILL APPROACH THE 108 TO 115 DEGREE RANGE. AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IS IN EFFECT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. HEAT ADVISORIES MAY BE REQUIRED FOR OTHER LOCATIONS. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. .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. NELSON
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
834 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012
GAZ132>135-020115-
APPLING-BACON-COFFEE-JEFF DAVIS-
834 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR JEFF DAVIS...
NORTHERN APPLING...EXTREME NORTHERN BACON AND NORTHERN COFFEE
COUNTIES FOR STRONG WINDS AND EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING VALID UNTIL 915 PM
EDT...
AT 833 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 27 MILES NORTHWEST
OF PRIDGEN TO 29 MILES NORTHEAST OF PINE GROVE...MOVING SOUTH AT 20
MPH. EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55
MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE.
REPORT DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
LAT...LON 3176 8299 3178 8286 3195 8257 3193 8235
3188 8212 3171 8217 3164 8299
TIME...MOT...LOC 0033Z 221DEG 10KT 3205 8313 3218 8221
ZIBURAThe Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:04 UTC.
9 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees were blown down in Hazelhurst. The time of damage was based on radar imagery.
Power lines were blown down near the county farm plant outside of Baxley. The time of damage was based on radar.
Trees were blown down near Martin Luther King Drive in Baxley. The time of damage was based on radar.
Power lines were damaged along Fire Line Drive from thunderstorm winds. The time of event damage was based on radar.
Trees were blown down from thunderstorm winds. The time of the event was based on radar.
A citizen was struck by lightning and taken to the hospital.
Trees and power lines were blown down on the west side of Waycross. The time of damage was based on radar imagery.
Trees and power lines were blown down across the county. The time of damage was based on radar imagery of the outflow gust front.
Trees and power lines were blown down. The time of damage was based on radar imagery.
Eight to ten trees were blown down across the county along with 4-5 transformer blown down. The power was out in St. Marys. The time of wind damage was based on radar imagery.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, July 2012
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: 398799, 398801, 398802, 398810, 398804, 398798, 398811, 398807, 398805, 398809.