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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 2026, 3:47 PM EST for Columbia County, Hamilton County, Suwannee County, Florida. 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
- Feb 15, 2026, 3:47 PM EST (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2026, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Columbia County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Suwannee County, FL
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 12:59 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Hamilton, Suwannee | 48 min |
| Feb 15, 3:13 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Columbia, Suwannee | 32 min |
| Feb 15, 3:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker | 32 min |
| Feb 15, 4:11 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Union | 34 min |
| Feb 15, 5:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Marion | 48 min |
| Feb 15, 6:39 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Marion | 51 min |
| Feb 15, 2:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Pierce, Wayne | 31 min |
| Feb 15, 3:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Brantley, Charlton, Ware | 43 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.