Sea breeze convection produced a brief funnel cloud.
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Sea breeze convection produced a brief funnel cloud.
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NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 24, 2:14 PM EST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 314 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025 ...ONLY ISOLATED STORMS THIS EVENING ACROSS INLAND SOUTHEAST GA... ...HOT TEMPERATURES CONTINUE INLAND THROUGH THE WEEKEND... ...BACKDOOR COLD FRONT ARRIVES ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH BENEFICIAL RAINFALL POSSIBLE THROUGH MONDAY... 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 313 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025 Afternoon surface analysis depicts strengthening high pressure (1029 millibars) that has moved off the New England coast, but continues to wedge down the southeastern seaboard. A weakening and stationary frontal boundary was located to the south of this feature over the Savannah River Valley. Meanwhile, a cold front was pushing southeastward from the Great Lakes, the Mid- Mississippi Valley and the Southern Plains states. Aloft...ridging located to the northeast of the Bahamas continues to weaken and shift eastward, with a zonal flow pattern remaining in place across the southeastern U.S. A weakening shortwave trough embedded within this zonal flow pattern was shifting eastward across the southern Appalachians, while a stronger shortwave was located upstream from this feature that was approaching the Arklatex region. Our local pressure gradient is tightening this afternoon as high pressure wedges down the southeastern seaboard, with breezy onshore winds keeping coastal temperatures in the upper 70s and lower 80s as of 19Z. Multi-layered cloudiness was holding inland temperatures in the low to mid 80s, where dewpoints were gradually falling through the low and mid 60s. && .NEAR TERM... (through Tonight) Issued at 313 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025 Shortwave energy traversing the southern Appalachians will keep cool mid-level temperatures in place across our area this afternoon, but deeper moisture values will remain confined to southeast GA and the Suwannee Valley, where PWAT values will rise to the 1.5 - 1.6 inch range by sunset. Convection developing for locations north and west of the Alapaha, Ocmulgee, and Altamaha Rivers is expected to move slowly eastward late this afternoon. Outflow boundaries from this convection may have just enough moisture and instability to allow for isolated to widely scattered showers and thunderstorms to develop early this evening for locations north and west of Waycross. West-northwesterly bulk shear values will only be around 25 knots, and convection that manages to develop over inland southeast GA should remain rather tame, with some slower moving cells potentially producing locally heavy downpours. Any convection that manages to develop this evening will dissipate before midnight, with another round of radiation fog expected to develop at inland locations during the predawn and early morning hours. Locally dense fog will be possible due to a subsident air mass over our area, especially across inland southeast GA. Lows tonight will fall to the lower 60s at most inland locations, ranging to the upper 60s at coastal locations, where a light onshore breeze will continue overnight. && .SHORT TERM... (Friday through Saturday night) Issued at 313 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025 High pressure starts to slip further offshore on Friday, which will also shift the surface ridge further south over the Florida Peninsula. While this wont have a significant impact on our weather for Friday, it will slightly weaken the southeasterly onshore flow across the area, and therefore likely bring slightly higher daytime high temperatures as compared to Thursday. Similar to Thursday, a shortwave aloft will pass just north of the region across northern GA Friday and into Friday Night, which could spark a few isolated showers or thunderstorms over far interior GA Friday Evening and into the first part of Friday night as the sea breeze pushes far inland and leftover activity from earlier in the day approaches the Altamaha River Basin. Guidance is in pretty good agreement that slightly more drier air will be mixed in aloft, which therefore will limit convection chances to only around 15% or so in these areas. Highs in the upper 80s to near 90 will be common west of about I-95 inland, with low to mid 80s near the coast. Some mid and high clouds linger Friday Night with lows mostly in the 60s. A more well defined cold front starts to drop southward across GA during the day on Saturday, crossing southeast GA during Saturday Night and into northeast FL by early Sunday Morning. The front will push high pressure ridging out of the area, however moisture out ahead of the front does not look particularly impressive. If anything, this front will mostly bring with it a wind shift, with little change in both level temps and moisture. That said, the front combined with daytime heating and some moisture aloft will bring with it a low chance for showers and isolated thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and evening, mainly over southeast GA. Veering winds towards the southwest out ahead of the front will also allow temperatures to rise even warmer than both Thursday and Friday, as upper 80s to low 90s will be common across most of the area, except closer to the mid 80s by the immediate coast with a slight sea breeze influence. Low temps remain mild Saturday Night as the front continues to move through, despite winds shifting towards the west to northwest towards Sunday Morning. Lows in the mid to upper 60s will be common. && .LONG TERM... (Sunday through next Thursday) Issued at 313 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025 Closer to an anafront type of scenario occurs post cold front for at least the start of the long term period, as higher PWATs fill into the area for Sunday and linger into Monday, increasing chances for showers and some thunderstorms across the majority of the area. High pressure dives southeastward off the Mid Atlantic coast Monday Night and Tuesday, settling well offshore into the Atlantic by Wednesday. This will gradually increase the amount of subsidence and dry air into the region and therefore chances for convection, especially across eastern portions of the area given the position/orientation of surface ridging. As mentioned in the short term discussion above, there will not be a significant temperature change post frontal passage - especially immediately behind the front. Above average temperatures Sunday fall closer to normal for Monday and Tuesday before moderating towards above normal once again by mid week. && .AVIATION... (18Z TAFS) Issued at 209 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025 VFR conditions will prevail through at least 06Z Friday. Periods of MVFR to IFR conditions are expected to develop at VQQ and GNV during the predawn hours on Friday, with MVFR visibilities possible at CRG and JAX. VFR conditions should then prevail by 14Z Friday, although brief periods of MVFR ceilings of 2,000 to 3,000 feet will be possible from 14Z through 17Z, but confidence was too low to indicate these potential lower ceilings at the regional terminals at this time. Easterly surface winds will increase to 10-15 knots this afternoon, followed by winds shifting to southeasterly after sunset this evening, with sustained speeds diminishing towards 03Z at the inland terminals. Surface winds will remain sustained around 5 knots at the SSI and SGJ coastal terminals overnight. Southeasterly winds will then increase to 5-10 knots by 14Z Friday at the inland terminals and around 10 knots at the coastal terminals by 16Z. && .MARINE... Issued at 313 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025 High pressure centered off the New England coast will continue to extend its axis southwestward across our local waters through Saturday night. Meanwhile, a cold front will move across the southeastern states on Saturday afternoon and evening. This front may bring scattered showers and thunderstorms to our local waters from Sunday through Monday. Strong high pressure building over the Great Lakes states in the wake of this front during the weekend will shift towards the southeastern seaboard early next week, with winds shifting to northeasterly and strengthening across our local waters from Sunday afternoon through Monday as the front pushes south of our local waters. Onshore winds will result in gradually building seas on Sunday night and Monday. This high pressure center will shift offshore on Monday night and Tuesday, allowing southeasterly winds to gradually diminish. Rip Currents: A persistent easterly ocean swell will combine with breezy onshore winds will keep a lower end moderate risk in place at all area beaches through the upcoming weekend. A high risk is possible early next week as onshore winds strengthen and surf becomes increasingly rough. && .FIRE WEATHER... Issued at 1154 AM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025 Isolated to widely scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible for locations to the west and north of Waycross late this afternoon through the mid-evening hours. Coverage will become isolated for locations north and west of Waycross on both Friday and Saturday afternoon and evening. Otherwise, a dry air mass will drop minimum relative humidity values to the 30-35 percent range for locations west of the U.S. Highway 301 corridor this afternoon, with values falling to near critical thresholds across portions of north central FL on Friday afternoon. Breezy easterly surface and transport winds will progress inland this afternoon, creating good daytime dispersion values for locations west of the I-95 corridor, while fair values are expected at coastal locations. Transport winds will shift to southeasterly on Friday morning, with southerly transport winds expected across inland portions of southeast GA during the afternoon hours. Lighter speeds will generally result in fair daytime dispersion values, with good values expected across portions of north central FL due to elevated mixing heights. Transport winds will shift to southerly on Saturday for locations south of I-10, while southwesterly transport winds will develop for areas north of I-10. Elevated mixing heights and gradually increasing transport speeds will create high daytime dispersion values on Saturday afternoon across inland southeast GA, while good values are forecast for the Suwannee Valley and inland northeast FL. Lighter transport speeds will yield fair daytime dispersion values at coastal locations as well as north central FL on Saturday. && .CLIMATE... DAILY RECORD HIGHS THU FRI SAT SUN JAX 93 (1999) 92 (1958) 92 (2011) 94 (1986) GNV 94 (1999) 93 (1896) 93 (1908) 96 (2011) AMG 93 (1999) 91 (1958) 93 (1986) 96 (1986) CRG 92 (1999) 91 (2006) 91 (1989) 93 (2011) && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 63 87 62 89 / 30 10 10 20 SSI 68 82 68 83 / 10 0 0 10 JAX 63 86 64 90 / 0 0 0 10 SGJ 67 83 65 85 / 0 0 0 10 GNV 61 90 63 92 / 0 0 0 10 OCF 61 90 63 92 / 0 0 0 0 && .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. GA...None. AM...None. &&
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:21 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A citizen relayed a video to social media of a brief funnel cloud along the Atlantic coast | at Micklers Landing. Spray ring was not visible beneath this cloud at the ocean | surface on the video.
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