Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 83, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Dec 4, 2006, 12:31 PM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Dec 5, 2006, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 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
- Dec 4, 2006, 12:31 PM CST (18:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 5, 2006, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2006, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 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 18:34 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, 6.5 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
- 1474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 041831 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1231 PM CST MON DEC 4 2006 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 6 PM CST MONDAY ACROSS ALL OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WELL BELOW 35 PERCENT... ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM CST TO 5 PM CST TUESDAY ACROSS ALL OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WELL BELOW 35 PERCENT... .STRONG HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION THROUGH MUCH OF THE WEEK. LOWEST AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALL TO WITHIN CRITICAL LEVELS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. FLZ001>006-008-050000- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0068.061205T1600Z-061206T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0083.061205T1600Z-061205T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0082.000000T0000Z-061205T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 1231 PM CST MON DEC 4 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS ALL OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WELL BELOW 35 PERCENT... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 5 PM CST TUESDAY ACROSS ALL OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WELL BELOW 35 PERCENT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 5 PM CST TUESDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. LOWEST RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE FORECAST TO DROP TO WITHIN A RANGE FROM 15 TO 25 PERCENT MONDAY AND TUESDAY. THE VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL LIKELY RESULT IN DANGEROUS WILDFIRE POTENTIAL. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS84 KMOB 051237 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 637 AM CST TUE DEC 5 2006 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 6 PM CST TODAY FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WELL BELOW 35 PERCENT... .STRONG HIGH PRESSURE AND VERY DRY AIR WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE AREA AGAIN TODAY. LOWEST AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL WELL BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. FLZ001>006-008-052045- /O.EXT.KMOB.FW.W.0083.061205T1500Z-061206T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 637 AM CST TUE DEC 5 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... LOWEST RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE FORECAST TO DROP TO AROUND 20 PERCENT AGAIN TODAY. THE VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL LIKELY RESULT IN DANGEROUS WILDFIRE POTENTIAL. $$
000 WWUS84 KMOB 051947 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 147 PM CST TUE DEC 5 2006 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WELL BELOW 35 PERCENT... .STRONG HIGH PRESSURE AND VERY DRY AIR CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE THE LOCAL WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. CRITICALLY LOW DAYTIME RELATIVE HUMIDITIES PERSIST ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. FLZ001>006-008-060000- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0083.000000T0000Z-061206T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 147 PM CST TUE DEC 5 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WELL BELOW 35 PERCENT... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. LATEST OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THE OCCURRENCE OF A VERY DRY AIRMASS AS LOWEST DAYTIME HUMIDITIES RANGE FROM 15 TO 20 PERCENT OVER MOST LOCALES OVER THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THESE VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL LIKELY RESULT IN DANGEROUS WILDFIRE POTENTIAL. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 4:15 AM CST | Freeze Warning | MOB | 27 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.