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Red Flag Warning 36, NWS Mobile, AL

April 6, 2006Walton County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Apr 6, 2006, 6:37 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 6, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT. 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: Apr 6, 2006, 6:37 AM CDT (11:37 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 6, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 6, 2006, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Walton County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS84 KMOB 061137
RFWMOB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
637 AM CDT THU APR 6 2006

FLZ001>006-008-061945-
/O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0028.060406T1600Z-060407T0000Z/
/O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0036.060406T1600Z-060406T2200Z/
INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-
COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-
COASTAL WALTON-
637 AM CDT THU APR 6 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CDT
THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS UPGRADED THE FIRE WEATHER
WATCH FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE TODAY TO A RED FLAG WARNING...
WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CDT THIS
AFTERNOON.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG
WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE
EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS84 KMOB 061836
RFWMOB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
134 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006

FLZ001>006-008-062200-
/O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0036.000000T0000Z-060406T2200Z/
INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-
COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-
COASTAL WALTON-
134 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON 
FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR A LONG DURATION OF LOW 
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE CONTINUES A RED FLAG WARNING 
FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS 
AFTERNOON FOR A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES.  

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL
CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

$$

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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.