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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 16, 2025Flagler County, Marion County, Putnam County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this wind advisory at Mar 16, 2025, 2:55 AM EDT for Flagler County, Marion County, Putnam County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 16, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2025, 2:55 AM EDT (06:55 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 16, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 16, 2025, 11:25 AM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Flagler County, FL, Marion County, FL, Putnam County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 119 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: 89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 357 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 16, 1:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 1:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 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 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, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Clay, Marion, Putnam	39 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.