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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2026, 7:37 AM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 53 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 12, 2026, 7:37 AM EDT (11:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Ware County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:40 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 12, 7:14 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 12, 3:21 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 3:21 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 3:25 AM EDT | Gale Warning | JAX | 26 hr | |
| Mar 12, 8:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 41 min |
| Mar 12, 9:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Suwannee | 29 min |
| Mar 12, 9:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 45 min |
| Mar 12, 9:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Columbia, Suwannee | 32 min |
| Mar 12, 10:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker | 29 min |
| Mar 12, 10:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 65 min | |
| Mar 12, 10:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker, Columbia | 30 min |
| Mar 12, 10:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Nassau | 30 min |
| Mar 12, 10:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 10:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Nassau | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 11:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval | 28 min |
| Mar 12, 11:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval | 44 min |
| Mar 12, 11:47 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 58 min | |
| Mar 12, 12:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval | 28 min |
| Mar 12, 12:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 58 min | |
| Mar 12, 7:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 36 min |
| Mar 12, 8:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Pierce and 2 more | 51 min |
| Mar 12, 8:26 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch | 19 min |
| Mar 12, 8:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Ware | 27 min |
| Mar 12, 8:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch, Echols, Pierce, Ware | 44 min |
| Mar 12, 9:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Brantley, Pierce, Ware, Wayne | 43 min |
| Mar 12, 9:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 35 min |
| Mar 12, 9:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols, Ware | 26 min |
| Mar 12, 9:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Brantley, Camden, Glynn | 24 min |
| Mar 12, 10:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Camden, Glynn | 36 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.