The Hoot Owl fire was started by children along Sharon Road and Illinois Drive in Satsuma on March 4th. The fire burned about 110 acres.
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.
The Hoot Owl fire was started by children along Sharon Road and Illinois Drive in Satsuma on March 4th. The fire burned about 110 acres. On March 27th, the fire was 100% contained. Long term dry conditions, warm temperatures and an early spring bloom contributed to elevated fire danger conditions.
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 Mar 27, 8:26 AM EST, 57 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 926 AM EDT Mon Mar 27 2017 .UPDATE... Low level ridge axis from the FL Peninsula will continue NE along the SE U.S. coast while mid level ridging over the Ern GOMEX and states of FL/GA will slowly drift east as another weakening shortwave over the Deep South will track across the SE U.S. later today and into tonight. This will continue above normal temps with just a slight chance of a brief shower/storm across inland SE GA later this afternoon and evening then fair skies once again overnight. Highs expected into the lower/middle 80s inland today with Atlc Coast Sea Breeze pushing inland this afternoon and keeping the beaches with highs in the mid/upper 70s. Lows tonight in the 55-60 deg range inland and lower 60s along the coast and near calm winds will support patchy fog around sunrise once again Tue Morning with models supporting some locally/shallow dense fog possible across inland areas. && .AVIATION... VFR conds will continue with SCT Cu field this afternoon with bases around 5000 ft. SE winds to increase with sea breeze passage around 10 knots. VFR again tonight with another round of possible MVFR VSBYS at inland TAF sites right around sunrise. && .MARINE... Light/Variable flow this morning to becoming SE around 10 knots this afternoon with seas 3-4 ft at the coast to 4-6 ft offshore and will continue SCEC for seas. Rip Currents: Moderate risk with the long period swells. Morning surf reports have breakers in the 3-4 ft range. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 85 60 84 61 / 10 20 10 10 SSI 74 62 75 62 / 0 10 0 0 JAX 83 60 85 61 / 0 0 0 0 SGJ 78 60 80 63 / 0 0 0 0 GNV 85 57 85 57 / 10 0 0 0 OCF 85 57 84 57 / 0 0 0 0 && .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. GA...None. AM...None. && Hess/Corless
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 930 AM EDT Mon Mar 27 2017 AMZ450-452-454-470-472-474-FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-124-125- GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-280900- Coastal waters from Altamaha Sound to Fernandina Beach FL out 20 NM- Coastal waters from Fernandina Beach to St. Augustine FL out 20 NM- Coastal waters from St. Augustine to Flagler Beach FL out 20 NM- Waters from Altamaha Sound GA to Fernandina Beach FL from 20 to 60 NM- Waters from Fernandina Beach to St. Augustine FL from 20 to 60 NM- Waters from St. Augustine to Flagler Beach FL from 20 to 60 NM- Hamilton-Suwannee-Columbia-Baker-Inland Nassau-Inland Duval-Union- Bradford-Clay-St. Johns-Gilchrist-Alachua-Putnam-Flagler-Marion- Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coffee-Jeff Davis-Bacon-Appling- Wayne-Atkinson-Ware-Pierce-Brantley-Inland Glynn-Coastal Glynn- Echols-Clinch-Charlton-Inland Camden-Coastal Camden- 930 AM EDT Mon Mar 27 2017 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Northeast Florida, Southeast Georgia and the Adjacent Coastal Waters. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight... A long period easterly ocean swell will create a moderate risk of rip currents at the northeast Florida and southeast Georgia beaches. Isolated thunderstorms are possible during the early evening hours for locations to the northwest of Waycross. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday... A persistent long period easterly ocean swell will keep a moderate risk of rip currents in place at area beaches through at least Wednesday. Locally dense fog will be possible during the predawn and early morning hours from Tuesday through Friday. Isolated mainly afternoon and early evening thunderstorms are possible on Thursday. Scattered thunderstorms are possible on Friday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed. For additional information, visit the National Weather Service in Jacksonville website on the internet at weather.gov/jax.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
The Hoot Owl fire was started by children along Sharon Road and Illinois Drive in Satsuma on March 4th. The fire burned about 110 acres. On March 27th, the fire was 100% contained.
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