Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Feb 28, 2007, 4:55 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 28, 2007, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 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 28, 2007, 4:55 AM CST (10:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 28, 2007, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2007, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 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 10:52 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 00:00Z, 10.9 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
- 3039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 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 281055 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 455 AM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES... .WARM TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH DRIER THAN NORMAL CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE WAY TO CRITICALLY LOW AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES GENERALLY OVER ALL INLAND AREAS STARTING APPROXIMATELY 8 MILES FROM THE COAST EXTENDING NORTHWARD. FLZ001>006-008-281900- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0023.070228T1700Z-070228T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 455 AM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 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 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. WARM TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH DRIER THAN NORMAL CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE WAY TO CRITICALLY LOW AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES GENERALLY OVER ALL INLAND AREAS STARTING APPROXIMATELY 8 MILES FROM THE COAST EXTENDING NORTHWARD. 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. $$
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.