Lightning in Clay County, Florida

Clay County EM Reported An Electrical Outage Likely Due To Lightning which Impacted Approximately 1,400 Customers In The Middleburg Area. No Infrastructure Damage was Reported.

Strong low pressure (991 millibars) moving across the Upper Midwest lifted a warm front northward into the Altamaha River in southeast Georgia. Deeper moisture surged northward into northern Florida in the wake of the warm frontal passage. This combined with a warm and unstable air mass resulted in scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developing in the afternoon into evening along the inland moving sea breezes mainly south of the I-10 corridor. Cool mid-level temperatures, steep lapse rates and ML CAPE values in excess of 2,000 j/kg caused strong storms to briefly severe to develop in the late afternoon into the evening hours. The Storm Prediction Center had a Marginal (level 1 out of 5) Risk for severe thunderstorm development across the area.