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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 16, 200813 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this red flag warning at Mar 16, 2008, 11:41 AM EDT for 13 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 16, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT. 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 16, 2008, 11:41 AM EDT (15:41 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 16, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Mar 16, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Harris County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Webster County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:45 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -22 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
WWUS82 KFFC 161541
RFWFFC

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1141 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2008

GAZ078>080-089>093-102>106-162345-
/O.NEW.KFFC.FW.W.0012.080316T1800Z-080317T0000Z/
HARRIS-TALBOT-TAYLOR-MUSCOGEE-CHATTAHOOCHEE-MARION-SCHLEY-MACON-
STEWART-WEBSTER-SUMTER-DOOLY-CRISP-
1141 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2008

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A RED
FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING.
THIS WARNING INCLUDES AREAS SOUTH AND WEST OF A HAMILTON...TO
FRANKLIN...TO CORDELE LINE. 

DRY FUEL MOISTURE CONDITIONS WILL COMBINE WITH RELATIVE
HUMIDITIES OF 20 TO PERCENT AND NORTH WINDS OF 5 TO 10 MPH. THIS
WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING...OR WILL OCCUR WITHIN 24 HOURS.

PLEASE REFER TO THE LOCAL BURN PERMITTING AUTHORITIES ON WHETHER
YOU CAN BURN OUTDOORS. IF YOU DO BURN OUTSIDE...USE EXTREME
CAUTION.

PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE
FIELD OF THE RED FLAG WARNING.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	43 min
Mar 15, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson, Washington	32 min
Mar 15, 8:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Laurens	32 min
Mar 15, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs	25 min
Mar 15, 8:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel	22 min
Mar 15, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	33 min
Mar 15, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	30 min
Mar 15, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington	39 min
Mar 15, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	44 min

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.