Surface low pressure formed offshore of Florida eastern seaboard with a deep upper level long wave trough upstream from the Great Lakes southward to the LA Gulf Coast. 5 inches reported.
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The episode as NWS JAX wrote it up.
Surface low pressure formed offshore of Florida eastern seaboard with a deep upper level long wave trough upstream from the Great Lakes southward to the LA Gulf Coast. Onshore flow brought waves of locally heavy rainfall to the coast, with daily rainfall amounts of from 1.5 to near 3.5 inches reported.
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 3, 1:32 PM EST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 232 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 2014 .SHORT TERM /THROUGH TUESDAY/... SCATTERED SHWRS ARE DEVELOPING EARLY THIS AFTN WITH MID/UPPER LEVEL TROUGHING TO THE WEST AND SURFACE TROUGHING TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL PREVAIL TNGT/MONDAY AS SURFACE TROUGHING MOVES NORTH ALONG THE OFFSHORE WATERS. NAM IS MOST ROBUST SHOWING A CLOSED LOW DEVELOPING TNGT OFF THE NE FL COAST. GIVEN CURRENT TRENDS WILL LEAN TOWARD THE MORE OPEN ECMWF/GFS FOR THE TROUGH/LOW. WILL PEAK POPS AT HIGH END SCATTERED OVER LAND AREAS LATE THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVENING...WITH PERIODS OF MORE NUMEROUS ACTIVITY OFFSHORE CLOSER TO THE GULF STREAM. MOST PRECIP WILL DIMINISH BY THE OVERNIGHT...WITH ISOLATED/SCATTERED SHWRS CLOSE TO THE COAST. THE TROUGH/LOW WILL MOVE TO THE NORTH MONDAY...EXITING TO THE NE LATE IN THE AFTN. ABUNDANT MOISTURE WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE AREA YIELDING ANOTHER ROUND OF SHWRS/TSTMS MONDAY AFTN. WILL USE ABOVE AVERAGE POPS IN THE HIGH END SCATTERED CATEGORY. TEMPERATURES TNGT AND MONDAY WILL REMAIN WITHIN A COUPLE DEGREES OF NORMAL. MID/UPPER TROUGH SWINGS ACROSS THE AREA ON TUESDAY AND WILL COMBINE WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE W TO SW FLOW TO PRODUCE SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING STORMS. SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR MAKES IT INTO SE GA BUT PW STILL CLOSE TO 2 INCHES ACROSS NE FL. HAVE GONE WITH HIGH END SCATTERED POPS FOR NE FL AND SCATTERED FOR SE GA. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG DUE TO THE INSTABILITY AND ADDED LIFT FROM THE TROUGH. .LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... THROUGH THURSDAY...PRECIPITATION CHANCES ARE REDUCED TO NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS WITH WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. AS WE GO INTO THE WEEKEND...THE ECMWF/GFS SOLUTIONS DIFFER CONSIDERABLY. ECMWF KEEPS A STRONGHOLD OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER FLORIDA. THE GFS KEEPS MEAN TROF ACROSS THE NE US SEABOARD INTO THE SE CONUS. HAVE LOW CONFIDENCE WITH THE DEPARTING SOLUTIONS. HENCE...HAVE KEEP SEASONAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL CHANCES OF POPS DURING THE WEEKEND WITH SOME INCREASE IN MOISTURE WITH 30 TO 40 PERCENT CHANCES PAINTED FOR NEXT WEEKEND. && .AVIATION... LOW END VFR TO MVFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL INTO THIS EVENING WITH SCATTERED/NUMEROUS SHWRS/TSTMS. WILL USE VCTS WITH TEMPO TS FOR MOST SITES 20-24Z. EXPECT PREVAILING VFR FROM MID EVENING INTO MONDAY AFTN. PATCHY FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE IN AREAS RECEIVING MORE SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL THIS AFTN. WITH THE GREATEST RISK OF THIS LIKELY INLAND...WILL USE MVFR FOR GNV 10-13Z FOR NOW. && .MARINE... ONSHORE FLOW WILL CONTINUE TNGT AS A WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE APPROACHES FROM THE SOUTH. AS THIS WAVE EXITS TO THE NORTH MONDAY...WINDS WILL SHIFT OFFSHORE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. SEAS WILL REMAIN SOMEWHAT ELEVATED THROUGH EARLY IN THE WEEK WITH EASTERLY SWELL...WITH SEAS PEAKING AT CAUTION OFFSHORE MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY. SEAS WILL SUBSIDE FOR MID/LATE IN THE WEEK WITH OFFSHORE FLOW. NUMEROUS SHWRS/TSTMS WILL PREVAIL TNGT WITH PRECIP COVERAGE DECREASING MONDAY/TUESDAY...WITH ISOLATED COVERAGE FOR MID/LATE WEEK, RIP CURRENTS: MODERATE RISK THROUGH MONDAY WITH ELEVATED EASTERLY SWELL. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 73 92 72 93 / 40 50 50 40 SSI 75 86 76 89 / 40 40 40 40 JAX 74 90 73 91 / 50 50 50 50 SGJ 75 89 76 90 / 50 50 50 50 GNV 72 92 72 91 / 40 50 50 50 OCF 72 92 73 91 / 40 50 50 50 && .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. AM...NONE. && ALLEN/PETERSON/MCALLISTER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 225 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 2014 AMZ450-452-454-470-472-474-FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040- GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-041000- 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- 225 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 2014 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY AND MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PREVAIL INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. ORGANIZED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. ISOLATED STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...WITH GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THE MAIN THREATS. A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS WILL PREVAIL AT AREA BEACHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... ISOLATED STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL BEING THE PROMINENT THREATS IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE WILL ALSO BE AN INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THIS WEEK AS TROPICAL SYSTEM BERTHA PASSES WELL OFFSHORE OF THE LOCAL 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.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Rainfall of 3.38 was measured at the USGS data site at Sea Camp Dock on Cumberland Island.
Rainfall of 3.25 was measured in 24 hours at the Federal RAWS station near High Point.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 536750, 536751.