Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 65, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Oct 12, 2006, 4:22 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 12, 2006, 12:00 PM 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
- Oct 12, 2006, 4:22 AM CDT (09:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 12, 2006, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 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 09:22 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, 9.4 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
- 1068 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KMOB 120922 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 422 AM CDT THU OCT 12 2006 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 6 PM TODAY FOR ALL AREAS IN THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO LOW AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES... .HIGH PRESSURE DEVELOPING OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION WILL HELP GIVE WAY TO DRIER CONDITIONS THROUGH SATURDAY. FLZ001>006-008-121730- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0065.061012T1700Z-061012T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 422 AM CDT THU OCT 12 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE... STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST THROUGH MIDDAY SATURDAY. AS A RESULT AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL HAVE TO BE CLOSELY MONITORED THROUGH SATURDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING...OR WILL DEVELOP LATER IN THE DAY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KMOB 122017 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 317 PM CDT THU OCT 12 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... THE WARNING AND WATCH ARE IN IS EFFECT FOR AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY FALLING BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS FOR 4 CONSECUTIVE HOURS OR MORE. .HIGH PRESSURE DEVELOPING OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION WILL HELP GIVE WAY TO DRIER CONDITIONS THROUGH SATURDAY. FLZ001>006-008-122300- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0052.061014T1600Z-061014T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0065.000000T0000Z-061012T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 317 PM CDT THU OCT 12 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST THROUGH MIDDAY SATURDAY. AS A RESULT AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL HAVE TO BE CLOSELY MONITORED THROUGH SATURDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING...OR WILL DEVELOP LATER IN THE DAY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 3:17 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Walton | 23 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.