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Red Flag Warning 57, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 14, 2008Gilchrist County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at May 14, 2008, 3:41 AM EDT for Gilchrist County, Florida. It took effect at May 14, 2008, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
May 14, 2008, 3:41 AM EDT (07:41 UTC)
In effect from
May 14, 2008, 1:00 PM EDT
Expired
May 14, 2008, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

County Gilchrist County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2008-05-14Temperature 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2008-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -71 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.