Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 52, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Jun 9, 2006, 6:30 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Jun 9, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 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 9, 2006, 6:30 AM CDT (11:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 9, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 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 11:31 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
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KMOB 091130 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 630 AM CDT FRI JUN 9 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA AND COASTAL WALTON DUE TO LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE INTERIOR PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA... SANTA ROSA AND OKALOOSA DUE TO LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE AND GENERALLY DRY CONDITIONS WILL ALLOW FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. GULF MOISTURE WILL FLOW INTO THE AREA SUNDAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK AND KEEP AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS. FLZ001-003-005-091930- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0043.060609T1700Z-060610T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0052.060609T1600Z-060609T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0044.060610T1700Z-060610T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- 630 AM CDT FRI JUN 9 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT SATURDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT SATURDAY 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. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$ FLZ002-004-006-008-091930- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0052.060609T1600Z-060609T2300Z/ COASTAL ESCAMBIA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 630 AM CDT FRI JUN 9 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KMOB 091838 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 138 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE INTERIOR PORTION OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE AND GENERALLY DRY CONDITIONS WILL ALLOW FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. GULF MOISTURE WILL FLOW INTO THE AREA SUNDAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK AND KEEP AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS. FLZ001-003-005-092300- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0052.000000T0000Z-060609T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.A.0044.060610T1700Z-060610T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- 138 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT SATURDAY 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. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$ FLZ002-004-006-008-092300- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0052.000000T0000Z-060609T2300Z/ COASTAL ESCAMBIA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 138 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:30 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | 24 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2006Every red flag warning in 2006
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.