Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 28, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Mar 15, 2008, 2:40 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 16, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT. 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
- Mar 15, 2008, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Walton County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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
- 1025 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KMOB 151940 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 240 PM CDT SAT MAR 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM CDT SUNDAY FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA AND COASTAL WALTON DUE TO LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .A COLD FRONT ADVANCING FROM THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY MOVES ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT WITH DRIER AIR FLOWING INTO THE REGION. MILD TEMPERATURES ON SUNDAY COMBINED WITH THE DRIER AIR WILL RESULT IN AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES DROPPING BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS OVER THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. GULF MOISTURE RETURNS TO THE AREA ON MONDAY AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE PLAINS WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES REMAINING ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FLZ001>006-008-161145- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0028.080316T1700Z-080316T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 240 PM CDT SAT MAR 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM CDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM CDT SUNDAY. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS NEAR 12 PM AND THEN RETURN ABOVE 35 PERCENT BY 6 PM. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KMOB 161127 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 627 AM CDT SUN MAR 16 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM CDT SUNDAY FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE COUNTIES OF ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA...OKALOOSA AND COASTAL WALTON DUE TO LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .DISCUSSION...DRY AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY BEHIND A COLD FRONT PUSHING SOUTH OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO. MILD TEMPERATURES TODAY COMBINED WITH LOW DEWPOINTS WILL BRING AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY SATISFYING RED FLAG CRITERIA OVER THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. SOUTH WIND WILL RESUME EARLY IN THE WEEK AS ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM DEVELOPS OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES EAST...IT WILL BRING NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS BY MIDWEEK...FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER COLD FRONT WEDNESDAY. RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL REMAIN OUTSIDE CRITERIA MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FLZ001>006-008-162300- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0028.080316T1700Z-080316T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 627 AM CDT SUN MAR 16 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS NEAR 12 PM AND THEN RETURN ABOVE 35 PERCENT BY 6 PM. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
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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.