Waterspout — St Augustine To Flagler Beach Fl 20 To 60nm, Atlantic South

2022-08-27 · near Crescent Beach, St Augustine To Flagler Beach Fl 20 To 60nm, Atlantic South

Event narrative

At 5:08 PM EDT, a spotter reported a waterspout north of Flagler Beach near Beverly Beach. A photo was relayed via social media. At 6:20 PM EDT, another waterspout was spotted east of Flagler Beach relayed via the Flagler County EM.

Wider weather episode

Surface trough was situated along the northeast Florida coast. Aloft, ridging stretched from Bermuda southwestward across the Florida peninsula as troughing built over the southeastern states. This weather pattern created a loose surface pressure pattern across our area with deep west-southwesterly flow maintaining the anomalously moist airmass over the area, with PWATs near 2.2 inches. The sea breezes developed and shifted inland in the afternoon and eventually merged along the I-75 corridor in the evening. Around 4 inches of rain fell in Marion county near Lake Weir. A couple of storms back built into the Atlantic developing waterspouts off the Flagler county coast.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1047703. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.