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Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Jacksonville, FL

April 8, 20264 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Apr 8, 2026, 2:20 AM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Apr 8, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT. 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
Apr 8, 2026, 2:20 AM EDT (06:20 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 8, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired
Apr 8, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Appling County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 263 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2026-04-08Temperature 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2026-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -57 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 2:21 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryJAX63 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.