{"id":170305,"date":"2025-08-23T23:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170305\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:28:12","slug":"jacksonville-tornado-possible-twister-in-florida-nws-issues-warning-for-duval-county-watch-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170305\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville tornado: Possible twister in Florida; NWS issues warning for Duval County – Watch | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A possible tornado was spotted near Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday amid the National Weather Service’s warning for Duval County. Residents were asked to take cover immediately, and videos of a storm and heavy rainfall surfaced on social media.<\/p>\n

\"A A massive tornado was spotted near Jacksonville on Saturday(Unsplash) <\/p>\n

\u201cTornado Warning continues for Duval County, FL until 6:15 PM EDT,\u201d the NWS said on X, platform formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the NWS has issued several flood advisories on Saturday evening as strong thunderstorms brought heavy rainfall to parts of Florida and Georgia, leading to minor flooding concerns in multiple counties.<\/p>\n

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In Duval and St Johns counties, Florida, a flood advisory remains in effect until 8:15 PM EDT. Forecasters reported between 1 and 2.5 inches of rain had already fallen, with an additional 1 to 1.5 inches expected. Communities including Jacksonville, St Augustine, Ponte Vedra Beach, Nocatee, and Vilano Beach are at risk of ponding on roads and flooding in low-lying areas.<\/p>\n

Farther west, in Bradford and Clay counties, Florida, heavy storms prompted a flood advisory effective through 7:45 PM EDT. Doppler radar estimates show 1 to 3 inches of rainfall, with another 1 to 2 inches possible. Areas such as Starke, Keystone Heights, Camp Blanding, and Hampton could see temporary flooding.<\/p>\n

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In south central Georgia, the NWS Tallahassee office issued a flood advisory for Berrien, Irwin, and Tift counties until 9 PM EDT. Forecasters warned of minor flooding from thunderstorms moving across Tifton, Ocilla, Enigma, Alapaha, and surrounding communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A possible tornado was spotted near Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday amid the National Weather Service’s warning for Duval…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,8314,3188,723,7310,97379,6231,8088,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-170305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-duval-county","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-tornado","14":"tag-national-weather-service","15":"tag-tornado","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115080678982667344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}