Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 49, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Jun 5, 2006, 2:05 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Jun 6, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Jun 5, 2006, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 6, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KMOB 051905 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 205 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY... THIS RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA... ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA AND COASTAL WALTON. THIS RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS FOR 4 CONSECUTIVE HOURS OR MORE. .DISCUSSION...HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL RANGE FROM 25 TO 30 PERCENT FOR MOST AREAS THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. BY TUESDAY NIGHT A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE COMBINED WITH INCREASING MOISTURE FROM SOUTH WILL HELP GIVE WAY TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST AREAS BEGINNING EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING CONTINUING THROUGH FRIDAY. FLZ001>006-008-060000- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0041.060606T1600Z-060607T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0049.060606T1600Z-060607T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0048.000000T0000Z-060606T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 205 PM CDT MON JUN 5 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY... THIS RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS FOR 4 CONSECUTIVE HOURS OR MORE. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND WARM TEMPERATURES COULD CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KMOB 061046 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 546 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM UNTIL 7 PM CDT TODAY ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FOR WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR POTENTIAL LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .DISCUSSION...A DRY AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL RANGE FROM 25 TO 30 PERCENT FOR MOST AREAS LATE THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON...AND IN THE 30 TO 35 PERCENT RANGE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. FLZ001>006-008-062115- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0042.060607T1700Z-060608T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0049.060606T1600Z-060607T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 546 AM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND WARM TEMPERATURES COULD CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:02 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Walton | 15 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.