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Red Flag Warning 14, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 9, 20087 counties in Florida; 12 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Feb 9, 2008, 3:22 PM EST for 7 counties in Florida; 12 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Feb 10, 2008, 11:00 AM EST. 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
Feb 9, 2008, 3:22 PM EST (20:22 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 10, 2008, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 10, 2008, 7:00 PM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Camden County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Wayne County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 315 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2008-02-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2008-02-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 9, 4:04 AM ESTRed Flag WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Nassau, Union14 hr
Feb 9, 3:22 PM ESTFire Weather WatchJAXBaker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union35 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.