Tropical Storm — Inland Duval, Florida

2016-06-06 to 2016-06-07 · Inland Duval, Florida

Event narrative

Impacts started in Duval County during the afternoon of the 6th just before 3:30 pm local time across the Jacksonville Westside when a squall line of storms produced a EF1 tornado near Normandy and Blair Road. The details of this damage will be in a separate Storm Data Tornado entry. As the Westside-Crystal Springs tornado dissipated, the thunderstorm rear-flank downdraft moved through a neighborhood northeast of the dissipating funnel cloud. The downdraft contacted the ground near West Beaver Street and moved northeast through the Watershed Drive,m Maple Avenue and Orme Road areas. The details of this downburst will also be in a separate Storm Data Event. Numerous reports of trees blown included the following as the strong storms moved across the county, at 3:25 pm 5 W Normandy trees were blown down near Interstate 10 and Chaffee Road and at 3:25 pm trees were blown down near the intersection of Cathy Tripp Road and Old Plank Road. At 3:50 pm, the peak wind gust at the Jacksonville International Airport ASOS was 43 mph. At 3:15 pm on the 6th, Cecil Field measured at peak wind gust of 25 kts from the south. Storm Total rainfall for the event ranged from 3.94 inches 4 ENE of Mandarin to 3.15 1 NW of Neptune Beach. Most rainfall across the inland portion of the county ranged from 2 to 4 inches, which included a measured 2.05 inches at the Jacksonville International Airport.

Wider weather episode

Tropical Storm Colin moved onshore the Florida Big Bend area late Monday June 6th and then tracked quickly over the local area that night. A band of heavy rainfall and strong thunderstorms moved across NE Florida on the east side of Colin during the afternoon of June 6th which produced strong tropical storm force wind gusts and subsequent wind damage including downed trees, power lines and some structural damage mainly along and east of the Highway 301 corridor in NE Florida. There was also one confirmed EF1 tornado touchdown within this squall that impacted the Westside of Jacksonville near Normandy and the Crystal Springs area. Tropical storm force wind gusts outside of thunderstorm activity started after midnight Tue morning (June 7th) across coastal locations with gusts generally between 40 and 50 mph. The heaviest rainfall amounts were observed Monday afternoon June 6th and range from 4 to 8 inches across much of NE Florida. SE Ga experienced less impacts.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 638861. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.