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Tornado Watch 52
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 16, 2025, 8:04 AM EDT for 23 counties in Florida; 11 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2025, 8:04 AM EDT (12:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 34 counties
Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Citrus County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Levy County, FL, Marion County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 32 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, 9:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor | 47 min |
| Mar 16, 10:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 37 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, 11:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Glynn, Wayne | 30 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, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Alachua, Clay, Marion, Putnam | 39 min |
| Mar 16, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hernando | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 4:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Citrus, Hernando | 23 min |
| Mar 16, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Citrus, Sumter | 12 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 37 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 454 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 8:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa and 3 more | 118 min |
| Mar 15, 8:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:47 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and 1 more | 58 min |
| Mar 16, 2:18 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:43 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty | 92 min |
| Mar 16, 7:28 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist and 5 more | 92 min |
| Mar 16, 9:31 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval and 8 more | 89 min |
| Mar 16, 11:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 9 more | 96 min |
| Mar 16, 2:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Duval and 10 more | 84 min |
| Mar 16, 12:19 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Muscogee, Quitman and 2 more | 116 min |
| Mar 16, 5:30 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Evans, Screven, Tattnall | 60 min |
| Mar 16, 6:12 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Screven | 95 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.