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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 17, 2026Suwannee County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2026, 4:27 PM EDT for Suwannee County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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
May 17, 2026, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Suwannee County, FL

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2026-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1760 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2026-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1760 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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
May 16, 8:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXMarion30 min
May 16, 8:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXGilchrist32 min
May 17, 2:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBaker31 min
May 17, 3:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXMarion31 min
May 17, 4:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXSuwannee30 min
May 17, 4:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXSuwannee37 min
May 17, 4:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXGilchrist40 min
May 17, 4:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXColumbia24 min
May 17, 5:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXUnion49 min
May 17, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXGilchrist33 min
May 17, 5:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXHamilton28 min
May 17, 5:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXColumbia37 min
May 17, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXHamilton31 min
May 17, 5:53 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXColumbia, Union112 min
May 17, 5:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXHamilton32 min
May 17, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXColumbia, Hamilton25 min
May 17, 6:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXHamilton31 min
May 17, 7:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXSuwannee114 min
May 17, 7:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXSuwannee31 min
May 17, 2:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWayne37 min
May 17, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling, Pierce, Wayne24 min
May 17, 2:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAtkinson23 min
May 17, 2:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWayne35 min
May 17, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAtkinson43 min
May 17, 3:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXCoffee37 min
May 17, 3:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBacon27 min
May 17, 4:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPierce35 min
May 17, 4:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXTelfair33 min
May 17, 4:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXClinch29 min
May 17, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee, Jeff Davis26 min
May 17, 4:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXEchols32 min
May 17, 4:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXTelfair28 min
May 17, 5:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXJeff Davis30 min
May 17, 5:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXEchols30 min
May 17, 6:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAtkinson34 min
May 17, 7:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXClinch23 min
May 17, 7:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAtkinson29 min
May 17, 7:41 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXClinch80 min
May 17, 7:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare32 min
May 17, 7:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXCoffee27 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.