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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Jacksonville, FL

August 8, 2025Putnam County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2025, 3:37 PM EDT for Putnam County, Florida. It was in force for 78 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 2025, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2025, 4:55 PM EDT
In force
78 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Putnam County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2025-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 762 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2025-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
762 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 7, 7:39 PM EDT, 19 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 7:39 PM EDT, 19 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 8:23 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXColumbia3 hr
Aug 7, 8:27 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXAlachua2 hr
Aug 7, 8:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXColumbia35 min
Aug 7, 9:23 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXColumbia3 hr
Aug 7, 9:28 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXBaker2 hr
Aug 7, 9:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXColumbia39 min
Aug 7, 10:20 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXHamilton, Suwannee115 min
Aug 8, 3:29 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXSaint Johns2 hr
Aug 8, 5:32 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXDuval, Saint Johns88 min
Aug 8, 5:33 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXFlagler, Saint Johns87 min
Aug 8, 8:54 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXNassau112 min
Aug 8, 3:04 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXPutnam2 hr
Aug 8, 1:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXGlynn51 min
Aug 8, 2:05 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXGlynn3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.