Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 69, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Oct 23, 2006, 2:27 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 24, 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 23, 2006, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 24, 2006, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 24, 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 19:28 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, 7.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 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 231927 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 227 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TODAY FOR CONECUH...ESCAMBIA...COVINGTON...BUTLER...WILCOX...MONROE AND CRENSHAW COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...KBDI VALUES IN EXCESS OF 500 AND SUSTAINED SURFACE WINDS OF 10 MPH OR GREATER... ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM CDT TUESDAY. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH WHICH WAS ONLY FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA ON TUESDAY.... FLZ001>006-008-240000- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0054.061024T1600Z-061024T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0069.061024T1700Z-061024T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0068.000000T0000Z-061024T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 227 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM CDT TUESDAY... DRY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST OVER THE CENTRAL GULF REGION THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO BUILD FROM THE NORTHWEST. AS A RESULT AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS THROUGH TUESDAY. SURFACE WINDS WILL AVERAGE BELOW 10 MPH FOR ALL AREAS IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. $$ ALZ054>060-240000- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0068.000000T0000Z-061024T0000Z/ WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW-ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON- 227 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... DRY CONDITIONS COMBINED WITH AVERAGE SURFACE WIND VALUES ABOVE 10 MPH ALONG WITH HIGHER THAN NORMAL KDBI INDICES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL AVERAGE BELOW 10 MPH ON TUESDAY. AS A RESULT NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ON TUESDAY. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS84 KMOB 241053 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 553 AM CDT TUE OCT 24 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 6 PM CDT TODAY ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR THE POTENTIAL OF LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .DRY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST OVER THE CENTRAL GULF REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO BUILD IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. AS A RESULT...AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FLZ001>006-008-242100- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0055.061025T1600Z-061026T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0069.061024T1700Z-061024T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 553 AM CDT TUE OCT 24 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... DRY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST OVER THE CENTRAL GULF REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO BUILD IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. AS A RESULT...AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. $$
000 WWUS84 KMOB 241924 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 224 PM CDT TUE OCT 24 2006 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 6 PM CDT TODAY AND WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .DRY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST OVER THE CENTRAL GULF REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO BUILD IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. AS A RESULT...AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FLZ001>006-008-242300- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0055.061025T1600Z-061026T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0070.061025T1600Z-061026T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0069.000000T0000Z-061024T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 224 PM CDT TUE OCT 24 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT WEDNESDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES COULD CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 3:34 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | MOB | 15 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.