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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 27, 2026, 1:16 PM EDT for 10 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 28, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Mar 27, 2026, 1:16 PM EDT (17:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2026, 7:36 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 1:04 PM EDT | Gale Warning | JAX | 39 hr | |
| Mar 27, 1:04 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | JAX | Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Marion and 4 more | 35 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:06 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | JAX | Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Saint Johns | 60 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:06 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | JAX | Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Saint Johns | 60 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:33 AM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 12 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.