Small Transport
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 12
Situational Awareness; Workload
ATC Issue All Types; Airspace Violation All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Staffing; Weather; Human Factors; Airspace Structure
I was working the radar and the sector got busier and busier. I asked for an Assist position. Someone was paged back from a break. Aircraft X called for clearance. I had numerous weather deviations with many MOA's active. Jacksonville arrivals were going in and out of ZJX airspace through weather and TMU (Traffic Management Unit) hadn't shut that off. Even a pilot asked why he was turned into weather from another sector. There wasn't enough room for all of the planes to get through all of the weather. I gave Aircraft X a clearance and tried climbing above Approach airspace but the airspace is too close and nearly every plane needs a point out that climbs from SSI northbound. The Assist sat down and I saw Aircraft X was in Approach airspace by about a mile. I called Approach and they approved a point out.If the Savannah or JAX Approach extended their boundary it could encompass SSI; BQK; JES and 09J airports. This geographical area is more suited for what approach does. Give them 10;000 ft or 15;000 ft and down. The staffing in the North area is always low. The other areas always seem to have more staffing than the North. If the areas were balanced there would be more people with Assists probably already in the area. This may not have happened if an Assist Position was already close by. TMU never shut off the inbounds and outbounds at Jacksonville. There seems to be more of a priority to call the precipitation rather than to route planes away from the weather. I had to stop inbounds and outbounds to JAX. There was little to no weather on the west side of JAX and little to no traffic. Things never should have gotten to that point. To prevent a reoccurrence [there needs] to be a rethinking of what TMU does. The volume of traffic in that degree of weather could have been avoided. TMU did not cause Aircraft X to go into Approach airspace but the complexity of what was going on contributed to me not catching it in time.
ZJX Center Controller reported not having enough time to point an aircraft out to another sector due to workload and weather deviations in their sector.