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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2025, 2:21 PM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 39 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
- Mar 16, 2025, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2025, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Alachua County, FL, Clay County, FL, Marion County, FL, Putnam County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:04 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 454 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 16, 1:58 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 1:58 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2:55 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | JAX | Flagler, Marion, Putnam | 9 hr |
| Mar 16, 8:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Hamilton, Suwannee | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 10:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 50 min |
| Mar 16, 10:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 10:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 11:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 11:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Alachua | 40 min |
| Mar 16, 11:37 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Union | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 11:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Gilchrist | 18 min |
| Mar 16, 11:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Baker | 10 min |
| Mar 16, 12:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Alachua | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 1:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Bradford, Union | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Putnam | 44 min |
| Mar 16, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Putnam | 48 min |
| Mar 16, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Flagler, Putnam, Saint Johns | 33 min |
| Mar 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 60 min | |
| Mar 16, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Flagler, Saint Johns | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 51 min | |
| Mar 16, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 33 min | |
| Mar 16, 7:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Appling, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 60 min |
| Mar 16, 7:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 52 min |
| Mar 16, 8:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 8:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Atkinson | 51 min |
| Mar 16, 8:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Wayne | 46 min |
| Mar 16, 8:43 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling, Bacon | 21 min |
| Mar 16, 8:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch, Coffee, Ware | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 9:01 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Ware | 12 min |
| Mar 16, 9:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 9:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Clinch, Ware | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 10:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Brantley, Ware | 35 min |
| Mar 16, 10:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Ware | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 11:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, Pierce, Wayne | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 11:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn, Wayne | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Brantley, Ware | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Wayne | 26 min |
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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.