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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Feb 6, 2026, 8:24 AM EST for 10 counties in Florida; Charlton County, Ware County, Georgia. It took effect at Feb 6, 2026, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2026, 8:24 AM EST (13:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2026, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2026, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Marion County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Union County, FL, Charlton County, GA, Ware County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:26 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Feb 6, 5:43 AM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 5:43 AM EST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 11:46 PM EST | Gale Watch | JAX | 13 hr | |
| Feb 5, 11:46 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | JAX | 37 hr | |
| Feb 6, 12:02 PM EST | Freeze Watch | JAX | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 5 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:30 PM EST | Gale Warning | JAX | 17 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2026Red Flag Warnings in Georgia, 2026Every red flag warning in 2026
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.