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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Jacksonville, FL

January 25, 20265 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 25, 2026, 5:28 PM EST for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 25, 2026, 5:28 PM EST (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Jan 25, 2026, 6:15 PM EST
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

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

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 265 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 12:00Z on 2026-01-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2026-01-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 975 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
373 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
975 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1097 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
Jan 24, 11:22 PM ESTFreeze WatchJAXAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 9 more25 hr
Jan 25, 12:45 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryJAX54 hr
Jan 25, 8:27 AM ESTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryJAX3 hr
Jan 25, 4:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee, Jeff Davis31 min
Jan 25, 6:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Ware and 1 more30 min
Jan 25, 6:47 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Pierce, Wayne43 min
Jan 25, 6:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling, Wayne24 min

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.