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Severe thunderstorms hammer Northeast Florida, Southeast Georgia

2 rounds of heavy rain and severe evening storms Wednesday, more to come Thursday

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Update 1 a.m.: All clear, for now. Light rain remains in place where Severe Thunderstorms Watches have expired. Rain will continue to move south making way for rounds of rain tomorrow and the continuing Weather Alert. Timing will be late morning through early afternoon for Southeast Georgia, then noon through around 4 p.m. for Northeast Florida.

After a Tornado Warning expired at 10 p.m., large areas of Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia remained under severe thunderstorm warnings Wednesday night.

9:32 p.m. update: A Tornado Warning has been issued for areas including Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach from 9:30 p.m. until 10 p.m.

According to the National Weather Service, a tornado has been indicated on radar and pea-sized hail is possible.

Update: 9:30 p.m.: Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Duval County through 10 p.m. Locally heavy rainfall, lots of lightning and damaging wind possible.

8:00 p.m.: A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been posted for northeast Florida through 1 a.m. Strong to severe storms will be possible across NE FL as the frond and the storms move south of the State line.

A Tornado Watch continues for all of Southeast Georgia and Nassau Co., Florida, until 10 p.m., and The Weather Authority Alert Day continues this evening into the overnight.

Strong to severe storms are possible this evening in areas north of the I-10 corridor.

The batch of storms will push across southeast Georgia and far northern portions of Northeast Florida during the mid to late evening hours.

A second squall line will move across southern Georgia and head east southeast down into Northeast Florida from 2-8 a.m. This line may be more favorable for isolated tornadoes.

Storms will cause damaging winds, with the possibility of a few tornadoes. Some weakening is possible after the initial storms hit but the rain will linger through the pre-dawn with some gusty storm winds in heavy showers through sunrise Thursday.

9 pm Wed Futurecast

The timing of the nocturnal storms is due to an approaching cold front along with impulses of upper level energy that will invigorate the strength of storms.

2 am Thurs Futurecast

Flooding is possible. Extra moisture in the atmosphere could result in localized flooding with over an inch and a half of rain. The steering flow parallel to the stationary front could cause training storms moving over the same area.

6 am Thurs Futurecast

And don’t count on a dry Thursday afternoon. A third round of storms makes an encore Thursday afternoon into the night.

The biggest threats with the storms this evening and overnight.

Stay with News4JAX and news4jax.com for latest on the severe weather threat, and be sure to activate push alerts on The Weather Authority app.


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After covering the weather from every corner of Florida and doing marine research in the Gulf, Mark Collins settled in Jacksonville to forecast weather for The First Coast.

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