Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bryceville, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Jacksonville, FL, 16 miles east of Bryceville at 33 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 66°F and 43°F. June and September are the wettest at 7.6 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 2.0 inches; the year adds up to 53.5 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 65% of the year's precipitation (34.9 of 53.5 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 93 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 81°F and 4.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 80 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 14 nights a year. That 53.5 inches is more than at 53 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (42%). Saint George, GA, 11 miles northwest, has its own station (Glen St Mary 1 W, FL): 53.2 inches a year, 0.3 less than here, and a July average high of 93°F against 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Jacksonville University, FL, 21 miles east, averaged 86°F in August and 58°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Mayport tide gauge, 32 miles from Bryceville, has risen 1.15 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1928 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 65 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 77 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bryceville: 55 thunderstorm wind reports, 15 heavy rain events, 4 floods, 2 lightning strikes and 1 flash flood. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $100,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 69 mph, on June 7, 1996.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bryceville's ZIP code 32009 have filed 14 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1992, and were paid $288,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. Of the 340 Florida cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 13 have fewer than Bryceville.