Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Mar 17, 2007, 2:09 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 18, 2007, 12:00 PM CDT. 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
- Mar 17, 2007, 2:09 PM CDT (19:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 18, 2007, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
- 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 19:10 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, 7.2 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
- 1855 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 403 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 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. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS84 KMOB 181103 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 603 AM CDT SUN MAR 18 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA AND COASTAL WALTON DUE TO LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... ...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE INTERIOR PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...AND OKALOOSA DUE TO A MARGINAL DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .DRY HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHEAST STATES SHIFTS INTO THE WESTERN ATLANTIC ON MONDAY ALLOWING FOR A SOUTHERLY WIND FLOW TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA TODAY AND GRADUALLY RETURN MOISTURE TO THE REGION. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS TODAY OVER THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS OVER THE INTERIOR PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE ON MONDAY...ALTHOUGH THE DURATION WILL BE MARGINAL. MOISTURE LEVELS CONTINUE TO RISE MEANWHILE AND WILL KEEP RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF NEXT WEEK. FLZ001-003-005-181915- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0023.070319T1700Z-070319T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0032.070318T1700Z-070318T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- 603 AM CDT SUN MAR 18 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT MONDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT MONDAY AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS 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. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$ FLZ002-004-006-008-181915- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0032.070318T1700Z-070318T2300Z/ COASTAL ESCAMBIA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 603 AM CDT SUN MAR 18 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS 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. $$
000 WWUS84 KMOB 181952 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 252 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT TO 6 PM CDT TODAY FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA AND COASTAL WALTON DUE TO LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... ...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE INTERIOR PORTION OF OKALOOSA COUNTY DUE TO A POSSIBLE SUSTAINED DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE AREA WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK. INLAND ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE HAVE BEEN DROPPED FROM MONDAYS FIRE WEATHER WATCH. A SOUTHEASTERLY WIND FLOW SHOULD CONTINUE TO ADVECT MOISTURE INTO THE REGION THE NEXT FEW DAYS...BUT A SOUTHEAST WIND OVER INLAND OKALOOSA COUNTY IS MAINLY OVER LAND...HENCE THE CONTINUATION OF THE WATCH. A BIT DROER AIR MAY MOVE ACROSS THE PANHANDLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND ITS POSSIBLE THAT ANOTHER WATCH MAY BE NEEDED. FLZ001-003-182300- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.A.0023.070319T1700Z-070319T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0032.000000T0000Z-070318T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- 252 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR MONDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. SURFACE HUMIDITY STARTED TO DROP BELOW 35 PERCENT OVER MOST OF THE AREA AT 11 AM AND WILL INCREASE ABOVE 35 PERCENT AROUND 6 PM. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ FLZ005-191100- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0032.000000T0000Z-070318T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.A.0023.070319T1700Z-070319T2300Z/ INLAND OKALOOSA- 252 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT MONDAY AFTERNOON... SURFACE HUMIDITY STARTED TO DROP BELOW 35 PERCENT OVER OKALOOSA COUNTY AT 11 AM AND WILL NOT INCREASE ABOVE 35 PERCENT UNTIL AROUND 6 PM. 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. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$ FLZ002-004-006-008-182300- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0032.000000T0000Z-070318T2300Z/ COASTAL ESCAMBIA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 252 PM CDT SUN MAR 18 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE RAPID FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
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, 6:11 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Walton | 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.