Severe Thunderstorm Warning Coverage

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:01:07]This is a Cloud's Weather Alert.

[00:01:10]Good Sunday afternoon, everybody.

[00:01:12]Meteorologist Casey Cloud here in the weather center right now, coming on the air. A severe thunderstorm warning on our far northern fringes here of the viewing circle and towards southeastern Georgia. Just a very little bit of Pierce County under this warning here, officially till 3:00 p.m. for some potential for maybe some damaging wind gusts there in that area. I know if we have any of that hail potential, Roy, that'd be staying north of the area.

[00:01:35]This is very far northern fringes. I thought about just posting it, but we're trying to go on for every severe thunderstorm warning here. Uh as we're looking ahead, you know, because our coverage area is a little smaller now.

[00:01:46]We do officially cover Pierce County, so thought we'd jump in because we're going to have to talk about here, you know, the potential for more storms later. So, I'll give you a warning about some of those here during the course of this update. So, again, this is our far northern fringes here. I know we've had the fire situation, you know, the word Brantley County where they needed to rain so badly. Uh you know, they've had, you know, things turn out here in the more recent period better with that, you know, being put, you know, under control. But, just obviously it's a situation where so many folks lost their homes. It's so terrible. By the way, seeing on Patterson now got a little thunderstorm here developing the last frame or two in the hour. But, yeah, back voting is a concern and part of the reason why I kind of thought, well, let's just jump in here because, you know, these storms that kind of just pop up can have erratic movement here that back it up and go forward. You know, that tail end here kind of just barely in the area here. So, you just never know.

[00:02:41]You never know. We could have some damage right there in our area along, you know, areas there around US 84 between Offerman and then you have the Screven community. It's that side of the coverage area there up US 84. This is south of the Jessup.

[00:02:55]Again, we don't cover Jessup, but just for perspective from the geographic, you know, uh type of realm here. So, again, I just want to let you guys know, you know, I'm really broadening it some.

[00:03:06]Again, we're getting pretty far out of our area, but I just, you know, as we look here, uh you can see some of those spots there. I mean, you see Darien is not in our area. It reminds me though, you know, seeing Darien on the map of what happened there going back, you know, that Mother's Day tornado that was an EF4 so long ago. We're not expecting any tornado weather here today. Uh granted, I mean, if something comes together, you can get a quick spin up, I guess. But, that's not the formal risk here today. But, it just reminds me, you know, that how big of an anomaly that was years ago up there to where McIntosh County because we don't get stuff like that around here. And then the El Niño pattern, you know, coming up in the fall, uh we'll have to just see if we kind of, you know, have that potential here coming into play, you know, with the overall meteorology. You have to wait and see on that here. But, again, I just uh continuing to give you guys the very latest here uh on this warning again. This is the very far northern fringes uh but we wanted to just jump in here just to be on the safe side in case there's a little bit of damage and wind on the southern fringe. If there's hail, it'll probably be out of our area. You know, the warning does not just include their uh parts of uh Pierce County in our region, but then it includes out of our area Appling and Wayne. So, at 2:36 this severe thunderstorm was located over Screven, Norma, northeast of Patterson, moving northwest at 5 mph. Screven, Odum, and Offerman there. So, large hail, damaging winds, and continuous cloud-to-ground lightning occurring with this storm. Moving doors immediately.

[00:04:33]Lightning is a one of nature's leading killers there. Remember Remember that if you hear thunder, you're close enough to be struck. And look at that. We just got a lightning strike pretty far away from the apparent thunderstorm there in the word Pierce County. So, again, just kind of giving you guys the look at that here. Uh as we're tracking things uh as we're monitoring things here with the overall meteorology, you know, uh it's just important to kind of keep in mind as we look at things here in the word the weather center. So, again, uh we're just trying to see here uh we're just trying to see here what's going on with the overall storyline.

[00:05:14]Uh we're just trying to let you guys know, you know, what we're dealing with.

[00:05:19]I know this is a kind of kind of interesting again. We're just jumping in here because this is our far northern fringes. I think we'll get some more in this area pretty soon. You can see western where we have a little area developing. Atkinson's not part of our area anymore, but we're watching some storms up that way. You can see more stuff in our area here popping up. And uh let me just take off our severe thunderstorm warning information here real quick.

[00:05:42]We'll go ahead and take off our severe thunderstorm warning information. You can see we have a significant volume of rain over the Fayette and Dixie counties. So, we'll watch that for development down there. We could have gusts to about 40 mph in northern Columbia County. You know, there's a signature starting to pop up on radar. A little bit [snorts] stronger in northern Marion County. So, again, we're just at the very beginning stages.

[00:06:05]We're going to have that potential about 9:00 or 10:00 here. Our chance is right up to a 40 40%. Granted, when you get, you know, under a downpour, it could you know, lead to a multiple inches, 2 inches maybe, you know, in some areas here today. So, that 40% really in terms of that spatial coverage is probably right, but this is going to be a pretty active day here, quite honestly, from what I'm seeing, you know, in terms of, you know, strong storms. And some of these will become severe, like the one we have that, you know, warning on up toward the north that's potentially severe. We'll get storms that are potentially severe with the yellow boxes here popping up. Again, not really expecting the red boxes today. You know, I want you to remain calm. This is just, you know, the beginning of the summertime that pattern. This is not, you know, an organized threat or anything like that.

[00:06:48]I don't want to, you know, overhype this. Definitely do not want to do that here, you know, as we're looking and as we're tracking things, as we're looking at the overall storyline. But do want to just warn you that, you know, there are some hazards here we got to watch out because, you know, we're so dry still that if we get lightning away from apparent thunderstorms, that could, you know, we just saw you do some of that in Georgia there, that could start the cloud-to-ground strikes, you know, new wildfires here. So, that's something to be cognizant of, too, as we're looking at the overall meteorological picture.

[00:07:16]So, again, just kind of something to be aware of here. Uh just something to be aware of as we're all watching, as we're all monitoring things.

[00:07:28]So, again, uh we're just uh trying to give you guys the overall storyline here.

[00:07:36]I'm just trying to too, while I'm on the air here, uh you know, figure out some stuff. I know we were talking about that Darien tornado up there as we write this guy out of the area, but I'm using that for the overall meteorology. You know, that 08 Darien tornado as we're looking at things.

[00:07:53]You know, just out of our area and that was actually in the La Niña there. It was kind of, you know, switching it, you know, as we were looking there. So, that's interesting because, you know, I kind of would have thought, I mean, I was pretty young then, still only 13. I just I would have kind of thought, thinking back on how active that year was that would have been El Niño, but just looking here, you know, quickly on some, you know, things in terms of research, that was actually La Niña here. We were starting to transition though in terms of, you know, getting to more neutral conditions, but we're going to be a neutral, you know, and then getting to a really strong El Niño later on with, you know, that's when we've had like the big events in 1998 in the worst central Florida 07 with the tornadoes. Doesn't mean it's going to happen this time. You have to have the actual meteorology coming together on a, you know, more localized level, but it's the overall pattern here, the broad scale pattern here in terms of meteorology. So, as we're kind of, you know, Darien in that area, but I'm just kind of using an example, you know, you know, you can't though just focus just on that even though, you know, 1998 07 in the worst central Florida, we had bad tornadoes in El Niño, you know, winters there. So, again, we're not it's May, so we we may be getting way ahead of ourselves here, but, you know, I just I think it's interesting from a meteorological standpoint. So, again, looking here to where Patterson, we're starting to see some development there right around Patterson and Offerman there as we're looking at the overall weather storyline. We're the, you know, again, we're just jumping in here. This is something that's really, you know, just really not, you know, a huge thing in terms of the overall, you know, hazard here for our zone. It's, you know, the the warned area. Granted, that other area may get a warning, and then that is, you know, more centrally in our viewing circle, but I see a viewer got a warning outside, you know, on the weather radio, you know, and you know, weather radios are very important, you know, they're you know, one of the tools you can use here in meteorology to really, you know, be cognizant of dangers. I mean, you know, sometimes in a pop-up situation you can use that and then, you know, know when to take shelter and then, you'll know to tune in here to Cloud Weather for the latest. I mean, a lot of times already be on if it's a more organized threat, but pop-up stuff like that's not so much because otherwise it'll be on every day out ahead of the threat and then I would get, you know, a pop-up stuff that doesn't really work 3-4 months out of the year doing stuff like that every day out ahead of the warnings. So, as you can kind of see here looking as we're tracking things, it's so warm. I mean, we're in the 90s here 92 east of Stark as I look at my weather station, you know, my Davis weather station here in my rural area. Obviously, that's not playing too much of a role in temperatures today, but we're starting to get a humidity back here as we're looking at the overall weather situation, you know, as we look at the overall meteorology. So, again, just kind of important here to be watchful of as we all track things again.

[00:10:42]We're looking at things in the Doppler.

[00:10:44]Strong thunderstorm there in the Lower Ware County. Gusts of 50 half-inch hail possible.

[00:10:50]As you look there, northern Columbia seeing development.

[00:10:54]You can see out toward areas there in Taylor, Lafayette, Dixie. We've got, you know, an area there always some development potential as well. So, you know, around Mayo area there, you know, to the South Cross City we have, you know, some thunderstorm activity. So, whenever thunder roars, you do have to go indoors. That's probably really even though we get warnings, you know, for the wind. You still got to take heed of them, you know, and sometimes those can coincide with more lightning. You know, you can have lightning, you know, that's a real problem here without a warning that can be deadly. I know last year, you know, up in the our Southeast Georgia it was just a terrible tragedy.

[00:11:27]Two people lost their life, you know, in the lightning situation there in the our Southeastern Georgia was just awful, you know, last summer time period in that range there just an awful awful situation. So, you know, whenever thunder roared, you know, sometimes you just get caught outside and there's not much you can do, but really, you know, and we haven't talked about this that much over the years because people don't get caught out outside as much anymore, but you know, you just want to lie flat there really to try to make yourself not a tallest object if you're really caught out there in a lightning storm. If something really develops and you don't have like a vehicle around or something, you want to lie flat.

[00:12:04]Uh granted, you always have to watch out for some flooding. It's not the funnest thing to do, but just so you don't have the lightning, you know, strike you because you're the tallest object in a It's just something to be mindful of here as we're looking at things, as we're watching things here with the overall meteorology. So, again, that warning just by the way, the boxes went off the screen. Going to make it another warning for Pierce here in a moment, but again, I'll look back here.

[00:12:30]2:55, the statement from the weather service in Jax. The warning will expire at 3:00. The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limit and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.

[00:12:43]However, small hail and gusty winds still possible with the thunderstorms.

[00:12:48]So, that's the story line there as we look again Patterson and Offerman and that might be an area we end up getting a warning here next little bit. We'll just have to wait and see. I'm getting a hail signal from my other source and I'm getting a This is scary to discuss in too. So, let's go ahead and jump on over to the other source here as we're watching things and you can kind of see here what we're talking about with the overall meteorology.

[00:13:13]You can see that blue circled area.

[00:13:15]That's where the storm prediction center thinks we could get some severe development. There's not enough, you know, organized nature to it to get a watch only 5% chance of that, so it's not going to happen, but it doesn't seem, but widely scattered thunderstorms will pose a risk for isolated damaging wind gusts, downbursts, and small to marginally severe hail through the evening. Watch issuance is not expected.

[00:13:36]If it were to happen it would be a severe thunderstorm watch, but I don't think that's going to happen here. An increase in convective coverage is expected this afternoon from the western Florida Peninsula. As I kind of read this verbatim from the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, the meteorologist who just did a great job just like our local meteorologist there at the weather service in Jacksonville, Tallahassee, and then also Tampa for our Levy County viewers. But as I read this here, you know, that potential here of the increasing coverage from the western Florida Peninsula and the southern Georgia along the Atlantic and Gulf Coast sea breezes, you know, will be happening and it's happening. And the temperatures in the low 90s and dew points in the upper 60s to lower 70s are supporting moderate to strong buoyancy with some energy there of 2 to 3,000 J/kg analyzed, you know, per the latest mesoanalysis there. So, again, uh despite the moderately strong with westerly upper-level flow, meager mid-level flow, uh less than 15 kn sampled at 500 mb by the 12Z Tampa Jacksonville observed soundings, you know, that it is still forecast. The overall pattern is to limit effective bulk shear to around 20 kn or less and while this is expected to largely limit storm organization, a favorable thermodynamic environment should support those pulse summer type, you know, and severe type convection, you know, as we're looking here and steep low-level lapse rates there and precipitable water values of 1.5 to 1.8 there will promote the potential for strong isolated damaging downbursts.

[00:15:08]We're getting that precipitable water back, which, you know, those higher values. That's great news here, obviously, as we're looking and as we're tracking things. We need the higher moisture levels to try to, you know, edge, you know, down on the drought that's is so terrible, you [snorts] know, around here and then as the situation as we're looking, you know, we're talking about some downburst winds likely in that 45 to 55 mph range, which, you know, if we get a bunch of that not as many of the warnings I might not have to be on as much here, but you know, because the warnings would be for 60, but really, you know, it's not that big of a difference in terms of just the, you know, damage is more likely when you get a 60, but small to marginally severe hail may accompany the strongest convective cores. Convection will largely be diurnal driven forecast to decrease later this evening and owing to the nocturnal cooling and stabilization and given the expectation for storm organization and threat magnitude remain limited. A watch issuance, you know, that's not going to happen I would not think, only a 5% chance, so again, that's the story line there. I know there's going to be big severe weather out toward Midwest there. Already a tornado watch there as we're looking out toward Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Mitchell, that community and parts of South Dakota, North Omaha and a big, big severe weather out there. We don't talk about national weather too much anymore, you know, just really broadly here.

[00:16:26]Follow your local meteorologist for the very latest. We don't cut in for that anyway. We'll mention, you know, we're on with the stuff for our local area, but again, you know, that's not something we talk about. Watch those local meteorologists, you know, whether it's on digital or broadcast, just tune in to them, but as we go ahead and look here at our local area, the warnings no longer are on the screen. That could change though, you know, in a moment, you know, at a moment's notice, I know.

[00:16:50]Tallahassee, by the way, I know FSU softball, they're out there, by the way.

[00:16:54]They're playing this afternoon against UCF. They won the first game, so another game, so you know, just getting going.

[00:17:01]So, we're watching the weather forecast for that. It's nothing, nothing the first that looks like out that way. The Gators won earlier, so they're, you know, they're moving on. So, no more games to have to worry about with the weather down there.

[00:17:13]As we look, you know, as we track things down in the world of law to a county. I know they had big concert action last couple of days down there, but you know, we're holding out for that a little on the warmer side at points, you know, especially earlier on, but you know, toward the nocturnal evening hour not so much, but as we go ahead and look here at the mapping.

[00:17:35]Let me put up some of the model guidance here.

[00:17:38]We're going to jump to this.

[00:17:42]Let me see if that's loading properly.

[00:17:45]Okay, this is really That's doing a terrible job.

[00:17:49]I mean, this is what it's supposed to look like at 3:00 according to the model. Making sure I have this set right because that looks crazy bad in terms of that forecasting.

[00:17:59]I mean, this is what we have on the radar here, folks. And according to our model, is it supposed to be this one little area here at 3:00? So, that's way off. I haven't seen a model off that much in a while, quite honestly. Let me just go to the shorter range.

[00:18:15]Wow, this is awful, but anyway, as we I mean, to be completely honest, I mean, it shows it later on, but we're getting stuff to develop earlier on here. You know, than what this is showing, so maybe we'll get a little bit earlier into this, but you know, I went an hour earlier and what some of the guidance was showing is based on how humid we're getting and we did have a little bit of pop-up stuff yesterday. I just kind of thought it'd have a little spark a little earlier on here with the overall meteorology. So, again, you know, we're already close to severe limits on a quite a few storms. I mean, maybe that keeps some of these from being, you know, it's really tricky this time of year trying to forecast severe.

[00:18:49]Maybe that keeps some of these storms under severe limit. We'll see. You know, I mean, we're at 90. Let's double check it now. 91 year used to start, so looking at our by the way, downstate there's a warning, but you know, not our area by any means, but you know, down there downstate they have a warning something to severe limit around Naples.

[00:19:07]Watch your local meteorologist there in those in those designated market areas, but again, as we go ahead and look back up toward the north here, uh we're just trying to give you guys the uh very latest here uh as the situation does progress here.

[00:19:23]Of course, we cover 38 counties, so we do overlap a few designated market areas. As we look, I know it used to be more, but we you know, we've narrowed things down to do a better job here to keep you guys, you know, up to date here on things in our more hyper local level.

[00:19:37]We're going to get even a lot more detailed as we look ahead in the weeks to come, but uh as we go ahead and uh just remind you guys of the covered area here, uh let me pull up the graphics.

[00:19:47]We're going to pull that up full here just to remind you guys of what we cover, you know, in these 38 counties.

[00:19:53]Our commitment here at Cloud Weather Country, and you can see I mean, you know, as we look out toward Tallahassee, that's the Tallahassee DMA, you know, those areas in the South Georgia as well. I know we used to cover a little bit of Albany, a little bit of Panama City. We don't cover any of those, you know, any parts of those DMAs anymore.

[00:20:10]Uh [snorts] you know, as we look as we track, I guess even you could say a little bit of Dothan, Columbus even the way it was in Southwest Georgia, but no, it we cover, you know, cover all Gainesville's DMA, all Jacksonville's DMA, most of Tallahassee's, and uh little bit of the Orlando officially with uh Marion and Flagler, but you know, Flagler's kind of a lot of people think of them as Jacksonville's area, and what the service does too, and Marion the same deal, so.

[00:20:34]And Gainesville kind of overlaps for TV there Marion versus Jacksonville, but it's the Jacksonville Weather Service.

[00:20:40]But you know, Gainesville and Orlando overlap in terms of TV coverage. But anyway, I know that's too much information baby. You know, maybe some of you guys don't want to get into all that, but it's just I think it's kind of interesting here since we're not too concerned about things, and we thought we'd just jump in here on this Sunday afternoon as we hit that warning for a little portion of our viewing area, so.

[00:20:58]Again, I'm just trying to give you guys the very latest here on the situation as we watch things as we track things here in the weather center. So, again uh we're just trying to keep you guys informed. Again, that lightning whenever thunder roared, you do want to go indoors here. You know, you see some stuff in northern Marion there and north of Ocala. Uh you also have southeast Marion there east of Bellview. Uh you know, northern Levy County, some lightning there west of Chiefland and up toward Cross City and Dixie County and Lafayette County west of Mayo. None of these are severe officially in the moment, but that could change pretty quick. You see some stuff in northern Columbia. You see uh parts of Charlton County around the Manatee community there. Uh you can see up in toward Georgia. We're watching that storm. It's under severe limits in now in Pierce. We had a warning earlier for Pierce, but uh that went away, you know, as we were tracking things, but we're just going to continue to watch the overall situation here from that meteorological standpoint. So, again you can see here uh you can see what we're talking about, what we're looking at here. Uh you can see some stuff development in southeastern Marion County now. It's getting a little bit stronger because when you get that a little triangle filled in, that means it's just under severe limits based on the hail algorithm on this mode. This mode does a little bit better job than the other mode here trying to detect that, you know, in terms of it.

[00:22:23]Sometimes it can overdo it on the more localized mode. This broader mode kind of filters some things out here. So, that can help. Another thing that's interesting to look at here, you know, we're going to go ahead and look at the overall and you know, scenario here. You can see our energy. This is really high for our area here. It's that summertime pattern we've all of a sudden gotten into.

[00:22:47]You can see these purples. That means we have surface-based cape over 4,000 joules per kilogram. So, that's very significant. It means the pop-up storms, that potential is really there. Here you have the moisture merging with that and here you go. It's summertime in terms of getting these storms to develop here. So, again in the word Pierce County and Brantley, you see some of those purples, but even the reds over 3,000 joules per kilogram. I know again, this is Roy getting in the deep part of meteorology here. We don't do this a lot, but you know, again, we don't have any formal warnings anymore.

[00:23:19]So, we'll just kind of do this for a moment, but you can see the uh orange is a little bit less toward Tallahassee, you know, under that 3,000 mark, but over 2,000 joules per kilogram there of that surface-based cape here and in the uh supercell composite not really around. If we had that around, then you would be watching for a tornado risk. We don't really have that unless we have some weird mergers, which can happen, you know, in some of these patterns, but we don't have much of the other parameter, just about moisture, it's about energy, and then that's where you you get pop-up storms. Sometimes you get downbursts, severe, you know, in terms of wind, maybe some hail. That's That's starting to get in that summertime pattern here. It's mid-May now, so it's kind of, you know, about time for that here as we look as we track. We need the rain. We just don't want to have those lightning strikes, those cloud-to-ground strikes be a problem here as [snorts] we look and as we watch things here in the overall weather picture, you [snorts] know, with the overall scenario here.

[00:24:09]So, again, just trying to let you guys know what's going on. Again, the temperature's very warm, and those heat index values, I mean, it's feeling like 98 in Gainesville with that heat index.

[00:24:21]You know, the late George Winterling talked about this, you know, he came up with that idea here, Roy, to be able to measure that heat and the humidity, that combination here. You know, our local legend here that passed away back in June of 2023 on TV in Jacksonville for so long. He did so many things in meteorology, and one of them was to come up with that concept concept of the heat index. You know, as we look here and as we track things, but you can see here at Perry, 98 is what it feels like there. At Gadsten County, 98. Uh you know, a little cooler in Tallahassee, not quite as much of that humidity and and you know, that that heat there interacting you know it's a war at FSU and the like and you know as we look and as we watch things here with the overall scenario we're going to go ahead and say here some of these wind directions you can see coming out of the east here toward the first coast but coming out of south toward Tallahassee as we look out there toward Leon County I know you have some lightning toward Madison so you know that's kind of interesting because I don't have a lot of convection here let me see if it's just popping a little bit you know this gets a little wet so we could have problems for that softball game there you know at you know that you know at that complex there toward Tallahassee as we're looking as we're watching things you know toward Leon County there I see you see up at two to nothing early there on the ACC network it looks like against FSU in that winner go home type of game there but as we're watching things as we're tracking things there at JoAnne Graff Field and we'll see if the Noles Lonnie how many of the squad can they come back there in that game you know to get to that next round the Gators I know already won earlier on and they're moving on to the next round of the softball playoffs you know in the round of 16 the super regional round so again you know something to be mindful of of course what a great you know week it was for Union County baseball they won there you know Lake Butler squad did down in Fort Myers against Trenton Trenton came up a little short what a dramatic win though congratulations again to Union County on winning that state title there in the rural class back on that Thursday they had a little bit of a parade there on that Friday to celebrate things you know toward that area there in the war Union County I haven't really seen the pictures of it so you know I heard there was a parade so I don't I don't know hopefully you know hopefully folks were riding about there toward that area to celebrate but again as we look as we watch things here just that to give you guys the very latest there toward that zone. Trying to let you guys know. I see we have Thomas watching there over on that YouTube platform. I appreciate you tuning in there and I trust in me here as we're looking as we're tracking things here in terms of the overall storyline here.

[00:27:16]You know, just trying to let you guys know here.

[00:27:22]Let you guys know what we're monitoring.

[00:27:27]We're just trying to check on a few more things. I'll probably wrap it up if we don't get a warning to pop up on us here momentarily, but again just trying to let you guys know here.

[00:27:44]Let me check our power outages.

[00:27:51]Again, looking there in the word Georgia.

[00:27:56]I see anything right now. None showing up in Pierce. None showing up out in Brantley. So, that's good.

[00:28:02]That's definitely some good news.

[00:28:07]Two out in Columbia.

[00:28:10]Five out in Marion. It's a very, very minuscule number. 100 out in Alachua, by the way. Alachua County. So, that's worth noting there, but 62 customers in the darken Hammond and Kenny according to poweroutage.us.

[00:28:23]Again, uh just not sure exactly what's going on here in terms of, you know, anything on some of these electric systems because it's a situation where not every one of them shows up in that system, but you know, it seemed like the pretty broad level consensus is not many power outages at all, which is great news, obviously. So, again, [snorts] I'm just trying to let you guys know what's going on. There's a marginal risk of severe weather today.

[00:28:49]A one out of five concern, so just have to stay aware here as we look as we track things, as we monitor things here but in [snorts] the war, the weather center.

[00:29:02]Uh we're just trying to keep you guys informed here uh on the very latest uh as the situation does evolve.

[00:29:12]Let me go ahead and see what I can pull up in terms of a look at side but where I'm at here. Give me just a moment.

[00:29:20]We'll try to get that together here.

[00:29:23]Look back out toward the west on everything.

[00:29:28]You know, as the situation does evolve, just trying to give you guys everything you need to know here in terms of that overall storyline. We have some strong storms, none of them at severe limits right now and some of them are pretty close as we look at things and as we all monitor things here in terms of our viewing circle. So again, I'm just trying to you know, be vigilant here.

[00:29:53]Be vigilant as we're all watching our 38 counties and see the different meteorological trends. Again, those are the heat index numbers. That's what it feels like there when you have the heat combined with the humidity. So again, uh just to trying to let you guys know everything that we're dealing with here.

[00:30:12]And seeing if we're going to get any more storm, you know, warnings. Those yellow boxes to pop up as we look at the overall picture. So again, we're we're just kind of, you know, trying to stay mindful of everything here, you know, as things do come together with the overall atmospheric characteristics. You know, just is important you know, to keep in mind here as we're watching the overall scenario.

[00:30:37]So you can see there you can see what we're tracking.

[00:30:44]What we're, you know, being you know, on guard for because you can see some lightning popping up away from the apparent thunderstorm activity. So, you know, up in or like Southeast toward it looks like south of Homer but or Clinton County getting some of that to happen with not too much moisture around but it's a little bit breezy out there this afternoon which, you know, might help with the heat just a bit. But we're going to look outside here. We're going to go ahead and look outside where we're at. So, let me get that pulled up for everybody.

[00:31:13]We're going to take that view outside if you haven't had a chance to you have not had a chance to look at your window.

[00:31:18]Here's how things look in Bradford County as we look off, you know, well, you know, here east to start looking back toward the west. And you can kind of just see what things I do look like right now there. The trees are blowing around some and you can kind of get an idea here of what we're watching, you know, as conditions, you know, they could destabilize more with more energy around. So, again, I just I trying to keep you guys uh, you know, up to date on everything here uh, as we all watch, you know, the overall weather situation.

[00:31:51]Uh, we're just going to be a mindful here of that overall meteorological scenario uh, to see how things come together. So, again, that's a look outside right now here east to start looking back off toward the west.

[00:32:06]Uh, you know, just trying to let you guys know that very latest again, there's that look one more time. We're going to go ahead and jump here back over though to the other source.

[00:32:17]So, let me go ahead and we'll throw that back up here in the system and you'll be able to see what we're dealing with here in terms of that overall radar map. So, again, we're making some, you know, enhancements here. So, again, just uh, continuing to give you guys that very latest on on everything as we look at have some stuff in different places here in our system. So, here we go. So, again, I'm just trying to uh let me go ahead, you know, and just uh show you that overall view here.

[00:32:52]We're going to go ahead and uh jump back on over.

[00:32:58]I see we have AJ Washington from Tallahassee. I appreciate you tuning in there. Uh you know, you have folks, you know, watching there talking about the special weather statement as well, you know, being big in size. Yeah, there you go. Well, on my one source, let me show it to you guys here on this other source, and you'll see what I'm talking about, you know, out here at the word uh Jefferson and Madison and Taylor and Fayette and Dixie. We have 40 mph gusts and pea-size hail. Movement at 10 mph off toward the west here. So, we'll continue to watch the trends. Let me get to a closer radar on that.

[00:33:34]You can see here. This is going to move pretty slow. We'll just have to watch for the more development. As we look there, you know, west of Mayo, east of Perry, and then you can kind of see here uh southeast of Cross City uh seeing some of that electrical energy down there. You can see advisory there in northern Columbia County. Also have parts of Marion County under an advisory. And then you can see in Georgia some stuff on the northern fringes or really just outside of the area in some cases as we look up that way. So, right now everything's officially sub-severe.

[00:34:05]Well, why? Because stuff could get marginally severe in the hours to come, but right now no warnings with that one for northern Pierce earlier on that very far fringe, you know, those fringes of our area as we look at the overall situation.

[00:34:18]Uh we're just going to keep on watching.

[00:34:20]We'll pop back in here as we need to.

[00:34:22]You have the interactive radar available on cloud.weather.com/radar.

[00:34:26]So, make sure you look on over there.

[00:34:29]Again, these are the heat index values with the heat and the combined. Here's your actual temperatures. Again, you can watch, you know, on Facebook the live streams as we come on or Twitter / X YouTube. You know, of course, you can hit that subscribe button there and they will notifications or know when we come on. You have Twitch there, cloud weather at cloud weather.com. So, again, just you know, a lot of different resources here with the interactive radar on cloud weather.com. So, uh let's you know, make sure you're keeping everything in mind. You have all the links available on cloud weather.com on that homepage as well. So, we're back here for the day. You know, if it's necessary, as it's necessary, as we get more of the warnings and the yellow boxes to pop up on the screen, we'll be here with you guys. But, if for some reason we get lucky we don't have those warnings again, it's whenever thunder roars go into, you don't want to really go indoors. You have that wind damage potential, the hail potential at points that are, you know, could be just under severe, which means under an inch, under 60 mph in terms of gusts that could still cause, you know, some minor damage here and some of those with the, you know, those uh brownest type boxes that aren't enough for me to generally come on here versus, you know, the yellow boxes. Cuz we're getting at summertime patterns that we don't want to jump in for advisories here unless something really looks, you know, imminent here in terms of some concern. So, cuz we have enough warnings to deal with the next 4 months or so. You can see some stuff in northern fringes or just north of our area there >> [snorts] >> up toward those zones there. As we get further up up toward like Willacoochee, we don't cover that area anymore. Just giving you a heads-up in case, you know, we do get a warning up that way though. You know, parts of Atkinson and Clinch County and parts, you know, of some of those zones as we get further north into where that geography, you know, it's just kind of important to keep in mind everything here that goes on in terms of the overall storyline, obviously.

[00:36:16]We just want you guys to be a mindful here.

[00:36:19]As we look, as we track things, you know, as we give you guys everything you need to know, of course.

[00:36:26]You know, as we're looking, you know, Coffee and Atkinson, they could get a warning. Again, that's, you know, Jacksonville service, but, you know, not the Jacksonville TV market and, you know, that gets a little bit north of our 38 counties, but just giving you a heads-up, something could get a warning up there. So, you know, just uh something to be, you know, aware of there if you're traveling up that way.

[00:36:43]So, again, I got We're going to wrap it for now. I hope you guys have a great afternoon. We'll be back here as conditions warrant. Very well, may have to be on a good bit here later on. We'll have to to see how things go.

[00:36:53]Develop it on the earlier side of things in the timeline. Doesn't mean we won't have more severe those. So, uh just kind of stay tuned here as we look. Sometimes if stuff develops again a little on the earlier side, that can limit the severe some, but, you know, we haven't really had much, you know, this is the very beginning of the summertime of a lot of energy, you know, in terms of the weather pattern anyway, not officially, but you know what I mean here in terms of the meteorology. So, again, we'll be watching, we're tracking. Some of this looks like, you know, it is, you know, kind of uh you know, nasty in terms of that lightning, those downpours, you know, slick road conditions, but not really the severe, you know, not close, but sometimes a downburst, you know, two of them atmospheric parameters set up can be tricky. You know, they can be tricky because, uh you know, you can get those here. You can definitely get those and uh it's not so up that well on the radar here and it still get a gust of like 55 mph or something. Once you start seeing it so better, then maybe it's enough for a warning. Some days, you know, things can look on radar not that bad and actually, you know, do verify.

[00:37:55]You know, it's just based on different, you know, atmospheric uh setups that we can have here in terms of the overall profile. So, again, that's the storyline for now. Hope you guys enjoy the afternoon. Stay safe and we'll be back here as those conditions warrant. Some of you guys will be all right. You know, the word of first coast beaches right now not seeing much at all in terms of the rain on the radar. You know, if you hear lightning, get inside immediately, but it's not that bad of a beach day right right out there with the way the winds are pushing things. We have the rip current risk though, so be very careful about that. Dangerous rip currents through late Monday, so be aware of that. We'll be aware of the weather for you in terms of some of those storylines in the storms, and we'll be popping back in here as it is warranted.