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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 5, 202514 counties in Florida; 14 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this wind advisory at Mar 5, 2025, 1:51 AM EST for 14 counties in Florida; 14 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 5, 2025, 2:00 AM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2025, 1:51 AM EST (06:51 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 5, 2025, 2:00 AM EST
Expired: Mar 5, 2025, 8:11 PM EST
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

All 28 counties

Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Marion County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 640 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 5, 1:11 AM EST, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 1:11 AM EST, 40 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
Mar 5, 7:31 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee	44 min
Mar 5, 9:36 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		84 min
Mar 5, 10:00 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval, Nassau	45 min
Mar 5, 10:19 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		86 min
Mar 5, 10:53 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		67 min
Mar 5, 11:41 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		94 min
Mar 5, 11:59 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		61 min
Mar 5, 12:09 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		51 min
Mar 5, 1:31 PM EST	Fire Weather Watch	JAX	Flagler, Marion, Putnam	14 hr
Mar 5, 2:17 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		43 min
Mar 5, 5:00 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson, Coffee, Jeff Davis	60 min
Mar 5, 5:56 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson, Coffee, Jeff Davis	49 min
Mar 5, 9:33 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden, Glynn	42 min
Mar 5, 10:14 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden, Glynn	16 min
Mar 5, 10:26 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Glynn	19 min

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.