Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Feb 10, 2007, 2:46 PM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 11, 2007, 3:34 AM CST. It was in force for 13 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
- Feb 10, 2007, 2:46 PM CST (20:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 11, 2007, 3:34 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2007, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 13 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 20:44 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, 8.8 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
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 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 102046 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 246 PM CST SAT FEB 10 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 6 PM TODAY ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE INLAND ZONES OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND COASTAL ZONES EAST OF NAVARRE ON SUNDAY FOR EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... ...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL ZONES OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE WEST OF NAVARRE ON SUNDAY FOR THE POTENTIAL OF LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .A DRY AIRMASS ACROSS THE AREA WILL CAUSE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES TO ONCE AGAIN DROP BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS ON SUNDAY FOR MANY ZONES ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. WINDS ON SUNDAY WILL BE LIGHTER THAN THOSE OBSERVED ON SATURDAY...HOWEVER THE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES DUE TO SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPERATURES ON SUNDAY COULD STILL RESULT IN UNCONTROLLABLE FIRES. FLZ001-003-005-006-008-110000- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0012.070211T1600Z-070212T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0011.000000T0000Z-070211T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- COASTAL OKALOOSA-COASTAL WALTON- 246 PM CST SAT FEB 10 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 6 PM CST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 6 PM CST SUNDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST TODAY. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. THE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE AN EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ FLZ002-004-110000- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0009.070211T1600Z-070212T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0011.000000T0000Z-070211T0000Z/ COASTAL ESCAMBIA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA- 246 PM CST SAT FEB 10 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST TODAY. THE RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL TODAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS FOR SUNDAY AS WELL. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS84 KMOB 110600 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1200 AM CST SUN FEB 11 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE INLAND ZONES OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND COASTAL ZONES EAST OF NAVARRE ON SUNDAY FOR EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... ...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL ZONES OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE WEST OF NAVARRE ON SUNDAY FOR THE POTENTIAL OF LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .A DRY AIRMASS ACROSS THE AREA WILL CAUSE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES TO ONCE AGAIN DROP BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS ON SUNDAY FOR MANY ZONES ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. WINDS ON SUNDAY WILL BE LIGHTER THAN THOSE OBSERVED ON SATURDAY...HOWEVER THE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES DUE TO SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPERATURES ON SUNDAY COULD STILL RESULT IN UNCONTROLLABLE FIRES. FLZ001-003-005-006-008-111400- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0012.070211T1600Z-070212T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- COASTAL OKALOOSA-COASTAL WALTON- 1200 AM CST SUN FEB 11 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 6 PM CST SUNDAY... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 6 PM CST SUNDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. THE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE AN EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ FLZ002-004-111400- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.A.0009.070211T1600Z-070212T0000Z/ COASTAL ESCAMBIA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA- 1200 AM CST SUN FEB 11 2007 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM CST SUNDAY THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM CST SUNDAY THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THE RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL TODAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS FOR SUNDAY AS WELL. $$
000 WWUS84 KMOB 110934 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 334 AM CST SUN FEB 11 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA... .ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...ESCAMBIA AND COASTAL WALTON. THIS RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .A DRY AIRMASS ACROSS THE AREA WILL CAUSE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES TO ONCE AGAIN DROP BELOW CRITICAL THRESHOLDS ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES COMBINED WITH WINDS AROUND 10 MPH OR HIGHER COULD RESULT IN UNCONTROLLABLE FIRES. FLZ002-004-111745- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0009.070211T1600Z-070212T0000Z/ /O.EXB.KMOB.FW.W.0012.070211T1600Z-070211T2300Z/ COASTAL ESCAMBIA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA- 334 AM CST SUN FEB 11 2007 ...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. $$ FLZ001-003-005-006-008-111745- /O.EXT.KMOB.FW.W.0012.070211T1600Z-070211T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- COASTAL OKALOOSA-COASTAL WALTON- 334 AM CST SUN FEB 11 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. THE LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE AN EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 4:00 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Walton | 14 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:46 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | 13 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.