A rip current fatality occurred at Huguenot Memorial Park on Fort George Island which was an unguarded beach.
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 rip current fatality occurred at Huguenot Memorial Park on Fort George Island which was an unguarded beach.
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 Jun 15, 12:15 PM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 115 PM EDT SAT JUN 15 2013 .SHORT TERM /THROUGH TUESDAY/... ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL FL...TO THE NORTH A WEAKENING FRONTAL BOUNDARY. DO NOT EXPECT MUCH FURTHER EXPANSION NORTHWARD OF THE SHOWER ACTIVITY...AND WILL USE MAINLY ISOLATED POPS SOUTH OF GNV INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. HIGH PRESSURE WILL GRADUALLY NUDGE INTO THE WESTERN ATLANTIC TNGT AND SUNDAY. MOISTURE WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE SUNDAY...AND THIS WILL RESULT IN SOME CHANCES OF SHOWERS NUDGING BACK TO THE NORTH. WILL USE ISOLATED AFTN POPS AS FAR NORTH AS THE SUWANNEE VALLEY SUNDAY...WITH LOW END SCATTERED POPS FOR NORTH-CENTRAL FLORIDA. LOW TEMPERATURES TNGT WILL RANGE FROM THE MID/UPPER 60S INLAND...WITH LOWER 70S CLOSER TO THE COAST. HIGHS SUNDAY WILL RANGE FROM THE LOWER 90S WELL INLAND...WITH MID TO UPPER 80S CLOSER TO THE COAST. CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY...AS AN UPPER WAVE MOVES EAST ACROSS THE REGION. PRECIP CHANCES INCREASE INTO TUESDAY...AS A FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR NORMAL SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. .LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... SURFACE BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO SLIDE SOUTH TO AROUND THE GA/FL BORDER ON WEDNESDAY...THEN BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY AND DISSIPATE INTO THURSDAY. THIS WILL LEAD TO ENHANCED PRECIPITATION POTENTIAL FOR THE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY PERIOD...WITH THE HIGHEST POPS IN SE GA. WEAK RIDGING WILL BE IN PLACE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...WITH PRIMARILY DIURNALLY DRIVEN CONVECTION EXPECTED. NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURE READINGS ARE EXPECTED. && .AVIATION... ONSHORE FLOW WILL CONTINUE WITH PREVAILING VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED. && .MARINE... WINDS AT BUOY 41012 ARE DECREASING SLIGHTLY...CURRENTLY AROUND 15 KNOTS. WILL LOWER THE CAUTION FOR THE OFFSHORE...WITH 10-15 KNOT WINDS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. NOCTURNAL SURGES WILL PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF SCEC CONDITIONS. RIP CURRENTS: MODERATE RISK THROUGH SUNDAY WITH MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 67 91 70 92 / 0 10 20 40 SSI 72 84 75 87 / 0 10 20 30 JAX 69 87 71 90 / 0 10 20 30 SGJ 71 85 74 88 / 0 10 20 30 GNV 69 90 71 91 / 10 20 20 40 OCF 70 90 70 91 / 20 40 20 30 && .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. AM...NONE. && ALLEN/STRUBLE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 440 AM EDT SAT JUN 15 2013 AMZ450-452-454-470-472-474-FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040- GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-160845- 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- 440 AM EDT SAT JUN 15 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA... SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTION MAINLY SOUTHWEST OF A GAINESVILLE TO OCALA LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY. .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. MKT
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A male was killed from a rip current. The time of the incident was unknown and entered at 16:00 EDT for inclusion of the event in StormData.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Duval | 2013-06-15 | 31 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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