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Flood — St. Johns, FL

Sep 8, 2017

A frontal boundary was stalled across central Florida with strong high pressure wedge axis north of the region across central Georgia. An inverted trough axis strengthened onshore convergence and focused strong gusty ENE winds and waves of locally heavy rainfall along portions of the NE Florida coast. Flooding started to occur during the evening of Sept. 8th across portions of St. Johns county due to training, heavy rainfall, and winds increased along the St. Johns, Duval, and Glynn county coast

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 720354). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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