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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL

January 29, 2007Walton County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Jan 29, 2007, 8:19 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 29, 2007, 9:00 AM CST. 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
Jan 29, 2007, 8:19 AM CST (14:19 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 29, 2007, 9:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 29, 2007, 7:00 PM CST
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 14:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 2.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-01-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-01-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -189 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS84 KMOB 291419
RFWMOB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
819 AM CST MON JAN 29 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE
TODAY DUE TO A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BELOW 35
PERCENT...

.A DRY AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY WITH AFTERNOON
RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES FALLING WELL BELOW CRITICAL VALUES ACROSS
THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE.

FLZ001>006-008-300100-
/O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0004.070129T1600Z-070130T0000Z/
/O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0005.070129T1500Z-070130T0100Z/
INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-
COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-
COASTAL WALTON-
819 AM CST MON JAN 29 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING. THE
FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

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.

$$

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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.