Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 11, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Jan 28, 2008, 6:20 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 28, 2008, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 5 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
- Jan 28, 2008, 6:20 AM CST (12:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 28, 2008, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2008, 3:46 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:23 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
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 35 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KMOB 281220 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 620 AM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR A SUSTAINED PERIOD OF LOW HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE... .DRY HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. WARMER AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL ALLOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES TO FALL AT OR BELOW 35 PERCENT ACROSS MOST OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR FOUR HOURS OR MORE. COASTAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES WILL NOT HAVE THE REQUIRED DURATION. FLZ002-004-281330- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.A.0009.080128T1700Z-080128T2300Z/ COASTAL ESCAMBIA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA- 620 AM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED... DRY HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. WARMER AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL ALLOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES TO FALL AT OR BELOW 35 PERCENT ACROSS MOST OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR FOUR HOURS OR MORE. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS UPGRADED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH TO A RED FLAG WARNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. $$ FLZ001-003-005-006-008-282300- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0009.080128T1700Z-080128T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0011.080128T1700Z-080128T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- COASTAL OKALOOSA-COASTAL WALTON- 620 AM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... DRY HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. WARMER AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL ALLOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES TO FALL AT OR BELOW 35 PERCENT ACROSS MOST OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR FOUR HOURS OR MORE. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR LIKELY WILL OCCUR. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KMOB 282146 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 346 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM... .A DRY AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE THIS AFTERNOON. FLZ001-003-005-006-008-282300- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.W.0011.000000T0000Z-080128T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0010.080128T2146Z-080128T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- COASTAL OKALOOSA-COASTAL WALTON- 346 PM CST MON JAN 28 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$ 32
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 3:46 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Walton | 74 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.