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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Jacksonville, FL

August 23, 2025Duval County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2025, 6:02 PM EDT for Duval County, Florida. It was in force for 13 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 23, 2025, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2025, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Duval County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 19 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: 992 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Aug 23, 3:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 3:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 23, 2:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 2:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 2:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 5:11 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 5:23 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 23, 5:57 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 8:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Suwannee	85 min
Aug 23, 1:02 AM EDT	Flood Watch	JAX	Duval, Nassau	19 hr
Aug 23, 5:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		65 min
Aug 23, 6:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Gilchrist	38 min
Aug 23, 7:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Bradford	31 min
Aug 23, 9:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval	32 min
Aug 23, 10:01 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Baker, Duval, Nassau	119 min
Aug 23, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Suwannee	42 min
Aug 23, 2:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Nassau	2 hr
Aug 23, 4:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Baker, Columbia, Union	115 min
Aug 23, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clay	34 min
Aug 23, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clay, Duval	67 min
Aug 23, 5:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Bradford, Clay	117 min
Aug 23, 6:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Duval, Saint Johns	2 hr
Aug 23, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Saint Johns	36 min
Aug 23, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		43 min
Aug 22, 8:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Jeff Davis	105 min
Aug 22, 8:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Glynn	67 min
Aug 22, 9:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Coffee, Jeff Davis	54 min
Aug 22, 9:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAX	Coffee, Jeff Davis	3 hr
Aug 23, 8:43 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Glynn	2 hr
Aug 23, 1:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Appling	2 hr
Aug 23, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Glynn	24 min
Aug 23, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Glynn	33 min
Aug 23, 3:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Camden, Glynn	2 hr
Aug 23, 3:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Jeff Davis	3 hr
Aug 23, 6:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Atkinson, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Ware	2 hr

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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.