A large fire broke out near County Road 214 and prompted local evacuations.
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 large fire broke out near County Road 214 and prompted local evacuations.
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 Feb 27, 1:55 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 155 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 ...TEMPERATURES WARM TO THE 80S AGAIN AT INLAND LOCATIONS ON WEDNESDAY... ...COLD FRONT BRINGS A SURGE OF NORTHEASTERLY WINDS AND SHARPLY COOLER WEATHER ON THURSDAY... ...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE FROM FRIDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS THE FRONT STALLS NEAR OUR AREA... For the latest NE FL and SE GA Daily Key Messages please visit: https://www.weather.gov/media/jax/briefings/nws-jax-briefing.pdf .SYNOPSIS... Issued at 155 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 Afternoon surface analysis depicts high pressure (1030 millibars) centered near Bermuda and extending its axis southwestward across the FL peninsula. Meanwhile, a strong cold front was diving southeastward from the northern Rockies and the northern Plains states towards the Upper Midwest. Aloft...stout ridging centered over the Bay of Campeche (southwestern Gulf of Mexico) was building across the rest of the Gulf of Mexico, downstream of a trough that was set to dig southeastward from the northern Rockies. A dry air mass remains in place locally, with warm air advection and plenty of sunshine allowing temperatures to soar to the 75-80 degree range at most locations at 19Z, except 70-75 for locations north and west of Waycross. Dewpoints at 19Z generally ranged from the 40s to the lower 50s. && .NEAR TERM... (through Tonight) Issued at 155 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 Troughing will continue to dig southeastward from the northern Rockies, driving a cold front through the Great Lakes and the upper Midwest tonight. Heights aloft will continue to rise locally downstream of this digging trough and front, with nothing more than patches of thin cirrus and perhaps some lower stratus and patchy fog developing across inland southeast GA and western portions of the Suwannee Valley during the predawn and early morning hours on Wednesday. Otherwise, a light southerly breeze will continue overnight, keeping lows in the 50s area-wide. Any fog or low stratus that manages to develop should dissipate shortly after sunrise on Wednesday. && .SHORT TERM... (Wednesday through Thursday) Issued at 155 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 An upper trough will dig southeastward from the Great Lakes into the TN river Valley on Wednesday, driving a cold front into the SE US. Southwesterly winds become breezy ahead of the front with gusts 20-30 mph. Wednesday will be the warmest day of the week with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s with pockets of mid 80s. The front will begin to weaken as it approaches the area as much of the upper level support lifts away to the northeast. A few showers will develop ahead of the approaching cold front and move into inland SE GA Wednesday night. High pressure builds in the wake of the frontal passage and wedges down the southeastern seaboard on Thursday. Coastal troughing develops Thursday into Thursday night generating showers that could shift onshore to Flagler and St Johns counties. Brief cool and dry airmass advects into the region lowering temperatures below normal with highs in the 60s to low 70s. Overnight lows will be upper 40s to upper 50s. && .LONG TERM... (Friday through Monday) Issued at 155 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 A stream of upper level shortwaves will parade across the region, creating unsettled weather into early next week. Scattered to numerous showers will overspread beginning Friday as south- southeasterly flow will maintain warm and moist conditions. There will be just enough instability and lift from passing shortwaves to support isolated thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday. Highs will remain steady in the 70s to around 80 and lows in the upper 50s to low 60s. && .AVIATION... (18Z TAFS) Issued at 103 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 VFR conditions will prevail at the regional terminals. Brief periods of MVFR visibilities will be possible at VQQ overnight, but confidence was too low to currently include in the TAFs. Breezy southerly surface winds will remain sustained at 10-15 knots this afternoon, except at the SSI and SGJ coastal terminals, where the Atlantic sea breeze will move inland, resulting in southeasterly surface winds around 10 knots. Surface winds will shift back to southerly towards sunset, with speeds remaining sustained at 5-10 knots overnight. South-southwesterly surface winds will then increase shortly after sunrise on Wednesday, with sustained speeds increasing to 10-15 knots and gusty after 14Z. && .MARINE... Issued at 155 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 High pressure centered near Bermuda will continue to extend its axis southwestward across the FL peninsula through Wednesday. Southerly winds will remain at Caution levels of 15-20 knots overnight both near shore and offshore. Seas of 2-4 feet will prevail near shore through Wednesday night, with 3-5 foot seas forecast offshore. A cold front currently diving southeastward across the Plains states will enter the southeastern states on Wednesday, passing through our local waters on Wednesday night. Strong high pressure building over the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys in the wake of this frontal passage will wedge down the southeastern seaboard on Thursday, creating a surge of northeasterly winds that will reach Small Craft Advisory levels of 20-25 knots both near shore and offshore during the predawn or early morning hours, with occasional gusts to Gale Force possible on Thursday morning. Seas will build to Caution levels of 4-6 feet near shore from Thursday through Friday, with Advisory level seas of 5-7 feet expected offshore. This front will stall across the FL peninsula on Thursday, with coastal troughing developing over our near shore waters by Thursday night and Friday and generating showers and possibly a few thunderstorms. This coastal trough will then lift slowly northward during the weekend as high pressure shifts eastward and off the Mid-Atlantic states, with onshore winds and the lingering frontal boundary to our south keeping periods of showers and isolated thunderstorms in the forecast. Rip Currents: Low wave heights on Wednesday should keep the risk low at area beaches. A surge of northeasterly winds and building surf heights on Thursday will likely create a high risk at the northeast FL beaches and a moderate risk at the southeast GA beaches. && .FIRE WEATHER... Issued at 155 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 Southerly transport winds will remain elevated overnight and will then become breezy shortly after sunrise on Wednesday, with winds shifting to southwesterly by the late morning hours and becoming breezy, with frequent surface gusts of 20-30 mph possible during the afternoon hours. These strong winds will again yield good to marginally high daytime dispersion values on Wednesday. Surface and transport winds will shift to north-northwesterly towards midnight on Wednesday night and then northeasterly by the early morning hours on Thursday, with gusty surface winds expected at coastal locations by the mid to late morning hours, followed by breezy conditions spreading inland during the early afternoon hours. These breezy onshore winds will yield generally fair daytime dispersion values despite cloudy skies region-wide. A drier air mass will briefly plunge into inland portions of southeast Georgia on Thursday, with relative humidity values expected to fall to near critical thresholds during the afternoon hours for locations north of Waycross. Surface and transport winds will then shift to northeasterly on Thursday night, easterly on Friday morning, and southeasterly on Friday afternoon as chances for showers and possibly an isolated thunderstorm gradually increase. && .HYDROLOGY... Issued at 155 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 Moderate flooding continues along lower portions of the Altamaha River near the Everett City gauge, where water levels have crested. Water levels along lower portions of the Altamaha should fall back to minor flooding on Wednesday and then below flood stage on Friday. Water levels along upper portions of the Altamaha River near the Charlotteville gauge have fallen below flood stage. Water levels elsewhere along the Altamaha are expected to fall below flood stage by Thursday. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 57 81 50 64 / 0 10 20 0 SSI 58 77 52 62 / 0 0 10 0 JAX 56 82 54 63 / 0 0 10 10 SGJ 59 82 57 68 / 0 0 10 10 GNV 55 82 56 70 / 0 0 20 10 OCF 54 82 57 72 / 0 0 10 10 && .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. GA...None. AM...None. &&
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A large brush fire developed near County Road 214. Roads were shut down in the area and localized evacuations were done. CR 214 was shut down from Lexington Street to a dirt road east of Power Line Road due to the fire.
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