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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 16, 20257 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2025, 8:10 AM EST for 7 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 50 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: Feb 16, 2025, 8:10 AM EST (13:10 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2025, 9:00 AM EST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Ware County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 16, 7:33 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 112 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1026 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 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 Feb 16, 5:07 AM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 5:07 AM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 16, 7:03 AM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
703 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025

GAZ132>135-149-161300-
Bacon GA-Atkinson GA-Appling GA-Coffee GA-Jeff Davis GA-
703 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT COFFEE...WESTERN ATKINSON...
NORTHWESTERN BACON...JEFF DAVIS AND NORTHWESTERN APPLING COUNTIES
THROUGH 800 AM EST...

At 702 AM EST, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Dublin to 7 miles northwest of Doerun. Movement
was east at 55 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 45 to 55 mph. Winds gusts may be stronger and
         warnings may become necessary.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Douglas, Hazlehurst, Willacoochee, Broxton, Ambrose, Graham, Plant
Hatch, Nicholls, Pridgen, and Snipesville.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

These storms may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.

&&

LAT...LON 3193 8226 3145 8271 3118 8302 3118 8305
      3128 8303 3134 8307 3140 8314 3146 8315
      3151 8308 3161 8306 3166 8300 3179 8299
      3178 8287 3192 8268 3193 8259 3196 8256
      3195 8249 3197 8250 3197 8247
TIME...MOT...LOC 1202Z 291DEG 46KT 3254 8292 3141 8399

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

SHASHY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 8:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Hamilton	47 min
Feb 16, 9:25 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Hamilton	65 min
Feb 16, 9:54 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Columbia, Suwannee	51 min
Feb 16, 10:17 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		58 min
Feb 16, 10:23 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Baker, Nassau	37 min
Feb 16, 10:32 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Nassau	28 min
Feb 16, 10:47 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Union	43 min
Feb 16, 11:04 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		56 min
Feb 16, 11:12 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Bradford, Clay, Duval, Gilchrist, Union	33 min
Feb 16, 11:30 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		60 min
Feb 16, 11:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Duval	14 min
Feb 16, 11:42 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Gilchrist	63 min
Feb 16, 12:32 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Putnam, Saint Johns	58 min
Feb 16, 12:42 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		63 min
Feb 16, 12:55 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler, Marion	65 min
Feb 16, 1:31 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler	59 min
Feb 16, 2:06 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler, Marion	39 min
Feb 16, 2:35 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		23 hr
Feb 16, 2:45 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler	30 min
Feb 16, 7:03 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Coffee, Jeff Davis	57 min
Feb 16, 7:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee, Jeff Davis	45 min
Feb 16, 10:13 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Ware	32 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.