Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Feb 11, 2008, 6:18 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 11, 2008, 11:00 AM CST. 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 11, 2008, 6:18 AM CST (12:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 11, 2008, 11:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2008, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 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 12:20 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 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 3418 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 111218 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 618 AM CST MON FEB 11 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH 5 PM MONDAY AFTERNOON SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA AND COASTAL WALTON COUNTIES OF THE WEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE... .ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OVER THE AREA DURING THE MORNING MONDAY...REINFORCING NORTH WINDS AND DRY AIR MASS FOR MONDAY. WIND BECOMES MORE EAST LIMITING THE FALL OF HUMIDITY TO LEVELS SEEN SUNDAY. THE NEXT RAIN WINDOW WILL BE LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHWARD OVER THE AREA. FLZ003>006-008-112300- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0014.080211T1700Z-080211T2200Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0016.080211T1700Z-080211T2300Z/ INLAND SANTA ROSA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- COASTAL OKALOOSA-COASTAL WALTON- 618 AM CST MON FEB 11 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. RELATIVE HUMIDITY ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE WILL FALL TO AROUND 30 PERCENT BY THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON MONDAY. THERE IS A LIKELIHOOD THAT THE DURATION OF LOW RH BELOW 35 PERCENT COULD EXCEED 4 HOURS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KMOB 111232 CCA RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 618 AM CST MON FEB 11 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... .ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OVER THE AREA DURING THE MORNING MONDAY...REINFORCING NORTH WINDS AND DRY AIR MASS FOR MONDAY. WIND BECOMES MORE EAST LIMITING THE FALL OF HUMIDITY TO LEVELS SEEN SUNDAY. THE NEXT RAIN WINDOW WILL BE LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTHWARD OVER THE AREA. FLZ003>006-008-112300- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0014.080211T1700Z-080211T2200Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0016.080211T1700Z-080211T2300Z/ INLAND SANTA ROSA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- COASTAL OKALOOSA-COASTAL WALTON- 618 AM CST MON FEB 11 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. RELATIVE HUMIDITY ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE WILL FALL TO AROUND 30 PERCENT BY THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON MONDAY. THERE IS A LIKELIHOOD THAT THE DURATION OF LOW RH BELOW 35 PERCENT COULD EXCEED 4 HOURS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
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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.