Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 37, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Apr 8, 2007, 6:05 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 8, 2007, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Apr 8, 2007, 6:05 AM CDT (11:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 8, 2007, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 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 11:07 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, 11.1 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
- 2727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 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 081105 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 605 AM CDT SUN APR 8 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING CONTINUES THROUGH 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 25 PERCENT... ...THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WINDS NOT EXPECTED TO RISE TO CRITERIA LEVELS... .DISCUSSION...A VERY DRY AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS SOUTH ALABAMA AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THROUGH SATURDAY. LOWEST DAYTIME RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE FORECAST TO BE WITHIN CRITICAL FIRE GROWTH THRESHOLDS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY AND AGAIN FOR SATURDAY. ALZ051>064-081215- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.A.0029.070408T1500Z-070408T2300Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN- 605 AM CDT SUN APR 8 2007 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. THOUGH RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO WELL BELOW 35 PERCENT TODAY...20 FOOT WINDS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE 12 MPH TODAY. THUS THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ FLZ001>006-008-081915- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0029.070408T1500Z-070408T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0037.070408T1500Z-070408T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 605 AM CDT SUN APR 8 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. LOWEST DAYTIME RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE FORECAST TO DROP TO AROUND 25 PERCENT OR LESS FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST. VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY THIS AFTERNOON WILL CREATE CONDITIONS THAT INCREASE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
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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.