Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Mar 17, 2007, 6:11 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 17, 2007, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Mar 17, 2007, 6:11 AM CDT (11:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 17, 2007, 9:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2007, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 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 11:09 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, 11.2 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
- 1326 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -87 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 171111 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 611 AM CDT SAT MAR 17 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING AND A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA AND COASTAL WALTON COUNTIES DUE TO LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .DRY HIGH PRESSURE IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION WILL SHIFT EASTWARD THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK ALLOWING FOR MOISTURE TO GRADUALLY RETURN TO THE AREA. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS OVER THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR A RATHER LONG DURATION TODAY...THEN A MARGINALLY LONG DURATION ON SUNDAY. MOISTURE RETURNING TO THE AREA WILL KEEP AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS FOR MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FLZ001>006-008-171915- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0021.070317T1500Z-070318T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0031.070317T1400Z-070318T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0022.070318T1700Z-070318T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 611 AM CDT SAT MAR 17 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT SUNDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT SUNDAY 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 EXPLOSIVE 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KMOB 171909 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 209 PM CDT SAT MAR 17 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING AND AGAIN SUNDAY FROM NOON UNTIL 6 PM. THE WARNING IS FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA AND COASTAL WALTON COUNTIES DUE TO LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .DRY HIGH PRESSURE IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION WILL SHIFT EASTWARD THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK ALLOWING SURFACE HUMIDITIES TO REMAIN BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS FOR AN EXTENDED TIME THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON. MOISTURE SLOWLY RETURNING TO THE AREA THE FIRST OF THE WEEK SHOULD KEEP AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS THROUGH NEXT WEEK. FLZ001>006-008-181100- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0022.070318T1700Z-070318T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0032.070318T1700Z-070318T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0031.000000T0000Z-070318T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 209 PM CDT SAT MAR 17 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM CDT SUNDAY... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM NOON UNTIL 6 PM CDT SUNDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR SUNDAY WAS REPLACED BY THE RED FLAG WARNING. SURFACE HUMIDITY WILL REMAIN BELOW 35 PERCENT UNTIL AROUND SUNSET TODAY AND WILL DROP BELOW 35 PERCENT AROUND NOON ON SUNDAY. SURFACE HUMIDITY ON SUNDAY SHOULD RISE ABOVE 35 PERCENT LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. | A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE RAPID FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 6:11 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Walton | 8 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:09 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Walton | 28 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.