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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 16, 20264 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2026, 1:02 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 28 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: Mar 16, 2026, 1:02 PM EDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Ware County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 16, 7:59 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 5.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 16, 10:44 AM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 10:44 AM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 16, 11:44 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 11:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 12:26 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 12:37 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 12:46 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 12:47 PM EDT, 15 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
Mar 15, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clay, Duval, Marion, Putnam	30 min
Mar 15, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		56 min
Mar 15, 8:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	30 min
Mar 15, 8:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		65 min
Mar 15, 8:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval	31 min
Mar 15, 8:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clay	29 min
Mar 15, 8:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		53 min
Mar 15, 9:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval	37 min
Mar 15, 9:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		59 min
Mar 15, 9:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval	31 min
Mar 15, 9:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	23 min
Mar 15, 9:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		51 min
Mar 15, 11:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua	34 min
Mar 16, 6:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Columbia, Suwannee	45 min
Mar 16, 6:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee, Union	28 min
Mar 16, 6:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Baker, Columbia, Union	31 min
Mar 16, 11:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Hamilton	40 min
Mar 16, 12:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Hamilton	49 min
Mar 16, 12:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Union	38 min
Mar 16, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Suwannee	29 min
Mar 16, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval, Nassau	36 min
Mar 16, 1:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Columbia, Suwannee	34 min
Mar 16, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay, Duval	29 min
Mar 16, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clay, Marion, Putnam	32 min
Mar 16, 1:38 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	JAX	Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	23 hr
Mar 16, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval, Nassau	33 min
Mar 16, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Gilchrist, Union	30 min
Mar 16, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		64 min
Mar 16, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay, Putnam, Saint Johns	21 min
Mar 16, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		59 min
Mar 16, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler, Putnam	41 min
Mar 16, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		51 min
Mar 16, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Marion	51 min
Mar 16, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval, Nassau	60 min
Mar 16, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		89 min
Mar 16, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Saint Johns	24 min
Mar 16, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler, Putnam, Saint Johns	37 min
Mar 16, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clay, Saint Johns	45 min
Mar 16, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Marion, Putnam	49 min
Mar 16, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay, Duval, Nassau, Saint Johns	31 min
Mar 16, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Putnam, Saint Johns	58 min
Mar 16, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Marion, Putnam	63 min
Mar 16, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Marion, Putnam	43 min
Mar 16, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler	61 min
Mar 16, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		56 min
Mar 16, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler, Putnam	42 min
Mar 16, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		56 min
Mar 16, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		63 min
Mar 15, 9:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden	46 min
Mar 15, 11:35 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	JAX	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis	11 hr
Mar 16, 5:20 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Clinch	40 min
Mar 16, 5:56 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Clinch, Coffee	36 min
Mar 16, 6:24 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Bacon, Pierce, Ware	23 min
Mar 16, 10:28 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	JAX	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis	22 hr
Mar 16, 10:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson, Clinch, Echols, Ware	47 min
Mar 16, 10:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Coffee, Jeff Davis	52 min
Mar 16, 11:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clinch, Echols	37 min
Mar 16, 11:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis	15 min
Mar 16, 11:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAX	Brantley, Charlton, Clinch, Pierce, Ware	13 min
Mar 16, 11:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis	46 min
Mar 16, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Brantley, Glynn	37 min
Mar 16, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden, Glynn	19 min

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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.