A moderate risk of rip currents was in effect due to lingering swells of 2-5 ft and periods of 11-14 seconds.
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 moderate risk of rip currents was in effect due to lingering swells of 2-5 ft and periods of 11-14 seconds.
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 5, 1:32 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 232 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2014 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-FRIDAY)... THIS AFT/TONIGHT...VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWING CU FIELD ACROSS THE AREA BUT CONVECTION SLOW IN DEVELOPING DUE TO DRY AND WARM AIR ALOFT. EXPECT A FEW STORMS TO POSSIBLY GET GOING...LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVE...MAINLY SOUTH OF THE I-10 CORRIDOR IN VICINITY OF A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH AND MERGER OF SEA BREEZES AND OTHER OUTFLOWS. ANY STORMS THAT MANGE TO GET GOING WILL RAPIDLY FADE OFF AFTER SUNSET. WEDNESDAY...MODELS CONTINUE TO INDICATE THE MEAN LAYER RIDGE TO BE ACROSS SOUTH FL WHILE WHILE A BROAD MEAN LAYER TROUGH WILL EXTEND FROM THE EASTERN SEABOARD INTO GA. WARM TEMPS ALOFT AND LIMITED MOISTURE WILL HELP LIMIT CONVECTION AGAIN BUT MOISTURE JUST DEEP ENOUGH ACROSS AREAS SOUTH OF I-10 TO SUPPORT SCATTERED LATE AFTERNOON STORMS FROM THE MERGER OF SEA BREEZES AND OTHER BOUNDARIES. HOT AFTERNOON TEMPS IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S INLAND AND AROUND 90 ALONG THE COAST. DRIER AIR WILL HELP TEMPER HEAT INDICES WITH THE HIGHEST AT AROUND 100 DEGREES. WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...MEAN ZONAL FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY PROVIDING FOR BELOW NORMAL PRECIP CHANCES. WILL KEEP MOST OF SE GA DRY WED NIGHT INTO FRIDAY...WITH SLIGHT CHANCE TO LOW END CHANCE POPS FOR NE FL. RIDGING TO THE SOUTH IS PROGGED TO WEAKEN FRIDAY...ALLOWING A MID/UPPER LEVEL TROUGH TO NUDGE SOUTH INTO THE SE CONUS. WILL INCREASE POPS FRIDAY AFTN CLOSER TO CLIMO NORMS WITH MID END CHANCE POPS AREA WIDE. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL PREVAIL...WITH HOT HIGHS IN THE MID 90S INLAND WITH AROUND 90 COAST. LOWS IN THE LOWER/MID 70S CAN BE EXPECTED. .LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... MEDIUM RANGE MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CONTINUING BREAKDOWN OF THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE...WITH A MID/UPPER LEVEL TROUGH BECOMING ESTABLISHED OVER THE SE CONUS A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL RESULT IN A HIGHER COVERAGE OF AFTN/EVENING CONVECTION. WITH SOME DIFFERENCES IN DETAILS BETWEEN THE MODELS...WILL USE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL POPS IN THE HIGH END CHANCE CATEGORY. TEMPERATURES WITHIN A COUPLE DEGREES OF NORMAL WILL PREVAIL. && .AVIATION...ISOLATED STORMS EXPECTED MAINLY SOUTH OF I-10 LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND HAVE VCTS AT GNV BETWEEN 21Z-01Z. PATCHY LATE NIGHT FOG WITH OCNL MVFR VSBY AT GNV AND VQQ BETWEEN 09Z-12Z. OTHERWISE PREVAILING VFR EXPECTED. && .MARINE...DATA BUOY OBS INDICATE WINDS GRADUALLY SUBSIDING AND AND WILL REMOVE EXERCISE CAUTION HEADLINE. SSW WINDS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH FRI WITH THE LOCAL WATERS BETWEEN TROUGHING TO THE NORTH AND HIGH PRESSURE OVER SOUTH FLORIDA. THIS WEEKEND HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO BUILD NE OF AREA WITH WINDS BECOMING PREVAILING ONSHORE. RIP CURRENTS: MODERATE RISK TODAY DUE TO LINGERING SWELLS OF 2-5 FT WITH PERIODS OF 11-14 SECONDS. A LOW RISK IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME FOR WED...BUT IF LARGE LONG PERIOD SWELLS LINGER A MODERATE RISK MAY BE NEEDED ONCE AGAIN. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 71 97 74 97 / 10 10 10 10 SSI 76 91 77 93 / 10 10 10 10 JAX 73 94 75 96 / 20 10 10 20 SGJ 75 91 75 93 / 10 20 20 20 GNV 73 93 72 93 / 30 30 20 30 OCF 72 93 73 93 / 30 30 30 40 && .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. AM...NONE. && PP/ZA/AW
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 250 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2014 AMZ450-452-454-470-472-474-FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040- GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-060936- 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- 250 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2014 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS WILL PREVAIL AT AREA BEACHES. ISOLATED STORMS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY SOUTH OF I-10 LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING. A FEW STRONG STORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... ISOLATED STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. .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.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A man was caught in a rip current at Mickler's Landing. His body was recovered and the cause of death was determined to be drowning due to a rip current.
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, St. Johns | 2014-08-05 | 20 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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