Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 15, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Feb 16, 2007, 1:02 PM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 17, 2007, 11:00 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
- Feb 16, 2007, 1:02 PM CST (19:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2007, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2007, 3:00 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 19:00 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
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 1196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 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 161902 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 102 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON AND FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM SATURDAY FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... ...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .A DRY AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH SATURDAY AND THEN BE REINFORCED ON SUNDAY. THIS WILL KEEP RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BELOW CRITICAL VALUES THROUGH THE WEEKEND. FLZ001>006-008-170815- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0012.070217T1700Z-070217T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0015.070217T1700Z-070218T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0013.070218T1700Z-070219T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-070217T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 102 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST SATURDAY... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST SATURDAY. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 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 RAPID FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS84 KMOB 171058 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 458 AM CST SAT FEB 17 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM TODAY FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... ...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .A DRY AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND WILL BE REINFORCED ON SUNDAY. THIS WILL KEEP RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BELOW CRITICAL VALUES THROUGH MUCH OF THE WEEKEND. FLZ001>006-008-172100- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0015.070217T1700Z-070218T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.A.0013.070218T1700Z-070219T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 458 AM CST SAT FEB 17 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... THE RED FLAG WARNING TODAY MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE RAPID FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH ON SUNDAY MEANS CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$
000 WWUS84 KMOB 172100 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 300 PM CST SAT FEB 17 2007 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR THIS AFTERNOON HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES REMAIN ABOVE 35 PERCENT... ...THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A RED FLAG WARNING... .A COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE EAST OF THE AREA BY LATE TONIGHT. AFTER A BREAK SLIGHT WARMUP...A COLDER AND STRONGER NORTHERLY FLOW WILL REBUILD OVER THE REGION TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN MODERATE SLOWLY BY MONDAY...WITH RAIN CHANCES INCREASING TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS ANOTHER FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. FLZ001>006-008-180500- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.W.0015.000000T0000Z-070218T0000Z/ /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0013.070218T1700Z-070219T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0016.070218T1700Z-070219T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 300 PM CST SAT FEB 17 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST SUNDAY... ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON OVER THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST SUNDAY. AS A RESULT...THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR SUNDAY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR THIS AFTERNOON HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS MISSISSIPPI LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON WILL BE EAST OF THE AREA BY LATE TONIGHT. AFTER A BRIEF SLIGHT WARMUP...A COLDER AND STRONGER NORTHERLY FLOW WILL REBUILD OVER THE REGION TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. THIS WILL AGAIN BRING A VERY DRY AIRMASS ACCOMPANIED WITH LOW AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ON SUNDAY. TEMPERATURES AND HUMIDITIES WILL AGAIN MODERATE SLOWLY BY MONDAY... WITH RAIN CHANCES INCREASING TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS ANOTHER FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 1:02 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Walton | 26 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:00 PM CST | Freeze Warning | MOB | 7 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.