Coastal Flood in Coastal St. Johns, Florida

Coastal Flood March 19, 2019 · Coastal St. Johns, Florida

What the National Weather Service wrote

St. Johns County declared a local state of emergency for Porpoise Point area due to washed out roads from coastal flooding.

The wider storm

Strong surface high pressure dominated over the mid-Atlantic region with a wedge axis down the SE Atlantic seaboard states, with low pressure meandering over the FL Straits. The gradient between these two feature produced enhanced onshore NNE flow with winds 15-25 mph and gusts 25-30 mph along the local coast. Coastal flooding occurred.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 808540. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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