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Red Flag Warning 75, NWS Jacksonville, FL

October 27, 20087 counties in Florida; 4 counties in Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Oct 27, 2008, 5:04 AM EDT for 7 counties in Florida; 4 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Oct 27, 2008, 4:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 3 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: Oct 27, 2008, 5:04 AM EDT (09:04 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 27, 2008, 4:00 PM EDT
Expired: Oct 27, 2008, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 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, Bacon County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 2259 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -18 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 Oct 27, 4:15 AM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 4:15 AM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 27, 4:21 AM EDT, 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
421 AM EDT MON OCT 27 2008

FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-280830-
HAMILTON-SUWANNEE-COLUMBIA-BAKER-NASSAU-DUVAL-UNION-BRADFORD-CLAY-
ST JOHNS-GILCHRIST-ALACHUA-PUTNAM-FLAGLER-MARION-COFFEE-
JEFF DAVIS-BACON-APPLING-WAYNE-ATKINSON-WARE-PIERCE-BRANTLEY-
INLAND GLYNN-COASTAL GLYNN-ECHOLS-CLINCH-CHARLTON-INLAND CAMDEN-
COASTAL CAMDEN-
421 AM EDT MON OCT 27 2008

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT NORTHEAST FLORIDA BEACHES TODAY...

LINGERING EASTERLY SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO ENHANCE THE RISK OF
RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE NORTHEAST FLORIDA COASTAL AREAS. REFER TO
THE SURF ZONE FORECAST FOR MORE DETAILS.

DRY AIR AND BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL ENHANCE THE FIRE DANGER BEHIND
A COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

VERY DRY AIR OVER THE REGION WILL CONTINUE TO ENHANCE THE FIRE
DANGER EACH AFTERNOON FROM TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

NEAR RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES FALLING INTO THE 30S EACH MORNING
FROM TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WILL ALLOW FOR PATCHY FROST
FORMATION...MAINLY OVER INLAND AREAS. SOME POCKETS OF SUB-FREEZING
TEMPERATURES WILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING BUT A
WIDESPREAD FREEZE IS NOT EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV/JAX.

JDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 27, 3:34 AM EDT	Gale Watch	JAX		11 hr
Oct 27, 2:14 PM EDT	Red Flag Warning	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	29 hr
Oct 27, 3:04 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	JAX	Gilchrist, Suwannee	24 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2008 Red Flag Warnings in Georgia, 2008 Every red flag warning in 2008

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.