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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Jacksonville, FL

April 7, 202515 counties in Florida; 14 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this wind advisory at Apr 7, 2025, 7:42 AM EDT for 15 counties in Florida; 14 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Apr 7, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 7, 2025, 7:42 AM EDT (11:42 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 7, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 7, 2025, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
All 29 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, Saint Johns 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), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:41 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 290 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-04-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-04-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1166 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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 Apr 7, 6:56 AM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 6:56 AM EDT, 46 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 3:05 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryJAX27 hr
Apr 7, 2:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXHamilton39 min
Apr 7, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXColumbia, Hamilton, Suwannee29 min
Apr 7, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXHamilton34 min
Apr 7, 12:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXJeff Davis44 min
Apr 7, 12:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAtkinson, Coffee40 min
Apr 7, 12:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXJeff Davis30 min
Apr 7, 1:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBacon, Jeff Davis47 min
Apr 7, 1:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAppling37 min
Apr 7, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley, Charlton, Clinch, Pierce, Ware17 min
Apr 7, 3:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBrantley, Pierce, Ware44 min
Apr 7, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare33 min
Apr 7, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPierce36 min
Apr 7, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley, Pierce, Ware32 min
Apr 7, 7:01 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXBrantley, Pierce, Ware29 min
Apr 7, 7:15 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXBrantley, Pierce, Wayne30 min
Apr 7, 7:31 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXBrantley, Glynn, Wayne11 min
Apr 7, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBrantley, Glynn, Wayne18 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.