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Red Flag Warning 75, NWS Mobile, AL

November 13, 2006Walton County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Nov 13, 2006, 6:00 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 13, 2006, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 5 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: Nov 13, 2006, 6:00 AM CST (12:00 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 13, 2006, 10:00 AM CST
Expired: Nov 13, 2006, 2:43 PM CST
In force: 5 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 12:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.0 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: 3240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 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 131200
RFWMOB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
600 AM CST MON NOV 13 2006

...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST
THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO PROLONGED LOW
HUMIDITY...

DRY COOL AIR WILL RETURN TODAY AND REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH
TONIGHT. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL REMAIN BELOW CRITIRIA
ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR AT LEAST SIX HOURS. AFTER
TONIGHT MOISTURE WILL RETURN TO THE REGION AND A STRONG COLD FRONT
WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY ACCOMPANIED BY NUMEROUS
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

FLZ001>006-008-132000-
/O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0060.061113T1700Z-061113T2300Z/
/O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0075.061113T1600Z-061114T0000Z/
INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-
COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-
COASTAL WALTON-
600 AM CST MON NOV 13 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST
THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST
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 132043
RFWMOB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
243 PM CST MON NOV 13 2006

...THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE HAS 
BEEN CANCELLED...

.HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE REGION WILL MOVE OFF TO THE EAST AS A
POWERFUL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM ADVANCES ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS.
AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES MAY DROP BRIEFLY BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS
OVER THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE
AFTERNOON BUT WILL OTHERWISE NOT SATISFY DURATION CRITERIA...THUS
THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THIS AREA TODAY.

FLZ001>006-008-132145-
/O.CAN.KMOB.FW.W.0075.000000T0000Z-061114T0000Z/
INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-
COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-
COASTAL WALTON-
243 PM CST MON NOV 13 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG
WARNING. 

$$

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.