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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 23, 2026Marion County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2026, 6:38 PM EDT for Marion County, Florida. It was in force for 37 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 23, 2026, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2026, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Marion County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 2026-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 988 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 2026-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
988 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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 22, 8:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXSuwannee20 min
May 23, 5:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPutnam31 min
May 23, 5:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPutnam30 min
May 23, 5:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXMarion31 min
May 23, 6:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPutnam29 min
May 23, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPutnam24 min
May 23, 6:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXMarion29 min
May 23, 7:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXMarion56 min
May 23, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXMarion59 min
May 23, 7:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBradford26 min
May 23, 5:14 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXPierce, Ware2 hr
May 23, 2:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAtkinson, Coffee27 min
May 23, 2:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXCoffee, Jeff Davis31 min
May 23, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXJeff Davis29 min
May 23, 4:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXGlynn27 min
May 23, 4:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWayne23 min
May 23, 4:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWayne48 min
May 23, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWayne53 min
May 23, 5:26 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXWayne2 hr
May 23, 5:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWayne28 min
May 23, 5:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBrantley, Pierce34 min
May 23, 6:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPierce36 min
May 23, 6:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPierce35 min
May 23, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAppling, Bacon, Pierce, Wayne41 min
May 23, 7:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXCoffee34 min
May 23, 7:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAppling, Jeff Davis33 min
May 23, 7:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXCoffee38 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.