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Red Flag Warning 20, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 26, 20087 counties in Florida; 12 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Feb 26, 2008, 3:31 AM EST for 7 counties in Florida; 12 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Feb 27, 2008, 12:00 PM EST. 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: Feb 26, 2008, 3:31 AM EST (08:31 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 27, 2008, 12:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 27, 2008, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 6 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Feb 26, 3:13 AM EST, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 3:13 AM EST, 18 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 25, 8:32 PM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	22 hr
Feb 26, 3:31 AM EST	Fire Weather Watch	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	35 hr
Feb 26, 12:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Hamilton, Suwannee	64 min
Feb 26, 12:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Nassau	47 min
Feb 26, 12:45 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		90 min
Feb 26, 1:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Duval, Saint Johns	14 min
Feb 26, 1:03 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		117 min
Feb 26, 1:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Baker, Columbia	47 min
Feb 26, 1:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Putnam, Union	45 min
Feb 26, 1:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Hamilton, Suwannee	45 min
Feb 26, 1:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Nassau	48 min
Feb 26, 1:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay, Saint Johns	47 min
Feb 26, 2:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Nassau	44 min
Feb 26, 2:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia, Gilchrist, Suwannee and 1 more	40 min
Feb 26, 2:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clay, Duval	41 min
Feb 26, 2:46 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		59 min
Feb 26, 2:55 PM EST	Freeze Watch	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union	13 hr
Feb 26, 3:04 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		56 min
Feb 26, 3:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Bradford, Clay, Duval, Nassau, Putnam, Saint Johns and 1 more	50 min
Feb 26, 3:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Marion and 2 more	58 min
Feb 26, 4:03 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		87 min
Feb 26, 4:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Marion	65 min
Feb 26, 4:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Alachua, Clay, Flagler, Marion, Putnam, Saint Johns	63 min
Feb 26, 5:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Marion	48 min
Feb 26, 5:29 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		91 min
Feb 26, 5:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Flagler	33 min
Feb 26, 11:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Clinch, Ware	16 min
Feb 26, 12:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton, Clinch, Ware	44 min
Feb 26, 12:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee, Jeff Davis	43 min
Feb 26, 12:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Clinch, Echols, Ware	53 min
Feb 26, 12:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Brantley, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Pierce, Ware	61 min
Feb 26, 12:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Jeff Davis	23 min
Feb 26, 12:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Atkinson, Coffee	23 min
Feb 26, 1:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Brantley, Pierce, Wayne	41 min
Feb 26, 1:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Camden, Charlton	59 min
Feb 26, 1:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Pierce, Ware	27 min
Feb 26, 1:35 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JAX	Camden, Glynn	23 min
Feb 26, 1:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Wayne	24 min

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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.