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Flash Flood in Hamilton County, Florida

Flash Flood June 7, 2020 · Hamilton County, Florida

$35K
Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

FDEM reported that the Hamilton EOC was flooded. Computers, furniture and records on the main floor were damaged. The road department reported that there was $30-$35K of repairs to roadways needed. The cost of damage for the EOC was unknown.

The wider storm

Deep tropical moisture was in place (PWAT 2.5) with the area on the east side of TS

Cristobal as the storm approached the LA Gulf Coast. Waves of moderate to heavy rainfall with isolated embedded thunderstorms pivoted northward across the local forecast area into the evening with a more solid band of moderate to heavy rainfall developing across north Florida as low level convergence increased between a lifting frontal zones across south-central FL and a persistent low level ridge axis holding firm just north of the Altamaha River basin. This ridge will limit the northward extend/expansion of the convective band into Sun, and generally focused a W-E oriented swath of heavy rainfall generally near and south of the I-10 corridor overnight into Sunday morning on 6/7. The ridge strengthened north of the Altamaha Region Sun afternoon 6/7, which shunt the corridor of heavy rain SSW toward the I-75 corridor of NE FL with drier mid level air (700-500 mb) decreasing rain chances across SE GA and eastern NE FL into Sun evening. In addition to heavy rainfall potential, there was a low tornado threat for NE FL into the evening of 6/6 with elevated 0-1 km shear values 20-25 kts with low level ESE winds under increasing SSW winds out of the GOMEX, with speeds increasing to 35-45 kts at 850 mb through 06z Sun 6/7.

Began near Jasper (30.5226, -82.9551).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 894217. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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