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Red Flag Warning 47, NWS Jacksonville, FL

April 3, 20065 counties in Florida; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Apr 3, 2006, 3:01 PM EDT for 5 counties in Florida; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Apr 4, 2006, 6:22 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 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
Apr 3, 2006, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 4, 2006, 6:22 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 4, 2006, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Atkinson County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 2006-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 226 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2006-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-526 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1118 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 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
Apr 3, 9:26 AM EDTRed Flag WarningJAXFlagler, Nassau10 hr
Apr 3, 3:01 PM EDTFire Weather WatchJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more24 hr
Apr 3, 3:28 AM EDTLake Wind AdvisoryJAXAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Clinch and 6 more17 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.