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Red Flag Warning 96, NWS Jacksonville, FL

December 12, 2008Suwannee County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Dec 12, 2008, 3:58 AM EST for Suwannee County, Florida. It took effect at Dec 12, 2008, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 4 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: Dec 12, 2008, 3:58 AM EST (08:58 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 12, 2008, 1:00 PM EST
Expired: Dec 12, 2008, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

County Suwannee County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 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 Dec 11, 9:33 PM EST, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 11, 9:33 PM EST, 6 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 11, 11:30 PM EST, 4 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 11, 10:09 PM EST, 5 hours 49 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
Dec 11, 8:42 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	JAX		108 min
Dec 12, 3:58 AM EST	Fire Weather Watch	JAX	Suwannee	22 hr
Dec 12, 9:05 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		67 hr
Dec 12, 2:43 PM EST	Freeze Warning	JAX	Baker, Gilchrist, Suwannee, Union	17 hr
Dec 11, 7:25 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson, Clinch, Ware	50 min
Dec 11, 7:51 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Jeff Davis	39 min
Dec 11, 8:11 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Charlton, Pierce, Ware and 1 more	49 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.