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Red Flag Warning 117, NWS Jacksonville, FL

December 8, 2006Suwannee County, Florida; 9 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Dec 8, 2006, 6:16 PM EST for Suwannee County, Florida; 9 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Dec 9, 2006, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 8, 2006, 6:16 PM EST (23:16 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 9, 2006, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Dec 9, 2006, 5:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Suwannee County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Wayne County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-12-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-12-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -171 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1378 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-16 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
Dec 8, 4:57 AM ESTFreeze WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union28 hr
Dec 8, 4:59 AM ESTFire Weather WatchJAXSuwannee13 hr

Nearby

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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.