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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 23, 202615 counties in Florida; 14 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Feb 23, 2026, 1:14 AM EST for 15 counties in Florida; 14 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Feb 23, 2026, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 6 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 23, 2026, 1:14 AM EST (06:14 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 23, 2026, 1:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 23, 2026, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 6 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 06:17 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 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 322 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: 1898 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -133 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 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 22, 6:07 PM EST, 7 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 6:07 PM EST, 7 hours 7 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
Feb 23, 12:22 AM EST	Cold Weather Advisory	JAX	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 9 more	33 hr
Feb 23, 12:22 AM EST	Freeze Warning	JAX	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 9 more	33 hr
Feb 23, 8:06 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		23 hr

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.