Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 77, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Nov 21, 2006, 6:08 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 21, 2006, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 4 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 21, 2006, 6:08 AM CST (12:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 21, 2006, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 21, 2006, 2:07 PM CST
- In force
- 4 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 12:08 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, 0.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 211208 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 608 AM CST TUE NOV 21 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA AND COASTAL WALTON DUE TO BREEZY WIND CONDITIONS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .DISCUSSION...DRY AIR WILL CONTINUE TO FLOW INTO THE REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SOMEWHAT BREEZY CONDITIONS TODAY AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES DROPPING TO AROUND CRITICAL LEVELS WILL COMBINE TO SATISFY RED FLAG WARNING CRITERIA FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE TODAY. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP TO AROUND CRITICAL LEVELS ON WEDNESDAY BUT NOT SATISFY DURATION CRITERIA. THIS WILL CHANGE ON THURSDAY AS WARMER TEMPERATURES WILL RESULT IN LOW AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FOR SEVERAL HOURS OVER THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. FLZ001>006-008-212015- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0064.061121T1700Z-061122T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0077.061121T1600Z-061121T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 608 AM CST TUE NOV 21 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 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 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KMOB 212007 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 207 PM CST TUE NOV 21 2006 FLZ001>006-008-212115- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.W.0077.000000T0000Z-061121T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 207 PM CST TUE NOV 21 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. $$
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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.