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Red Flag Warning 33, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Mar 24, 2008, 4:15 PM CDT for 10 counties in Alabama; Walton County, Florida; 5 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Mar 25, 2008, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 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 24, 2008, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 25, 2008, 11:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Walton County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 1125 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -77 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 242115 AAA RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 415 PM CDT MON MAR 24 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA DUE TO A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM TUESDAY FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA DUE TO A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .DRY HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TUESDAY THEN SHIFT EASTWARD INTO THE WESTERN ATLANTIC ON WEDNESDAY. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL AGAIN APPROACH CRITICAL LEVELS ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE ON TUESDAY. GULF MOISTURE BEGINS TO RETURN TO THE REGION LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY...KEEPING AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS ON WEDNESDAY. ALZ051-053>060-251100- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0028.080325T1700Z-080326T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0033.080325T1600Z-080326T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0032.000000T0000Z-080325T0100Z/ CHOCTAW-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW-ESCAMBIA- COVINGTON- 415 PM CDT MON MAR 24 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 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. $$ FLZ001>006-008-251100- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0028.080325T1500Z-080326T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0033.080325T1600Z-080326T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0032.000000T0000Z-080325T0100Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 415 PM CDT MON MAR 24 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ ALZ052-061>064-251100- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0033.080325T1600Z-080326T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0032.000000T0000Z-080325T0100Z/ WASHINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE-LOWER BALDWIN- 415 PM CDT MON MAR 24 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 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. $$ MSZ067-075-076-078-079-251100- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0033.080325T1600Z-080326T0000Z/ WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 415 PM CDT MON MAR 24 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS84 KMOB 251114 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 614 AM CDT TUE MAR 25 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...AND THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .DRY HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE AREA WILL SHIFT EASTWARD INTO THE ATLANTIC THROUGH WEDNESDAY ALLOWING FOR WINDS TO BECOME SOUTHEASTERLY AND GRADUALLY RETURN MOISTURE TO THE REGION. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS FOR A LONG DURATION ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. MOISTURE RETURNING TO THE REGION WILL KEEP RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-008-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-260000- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0033.080325T1600Z-080326T0000Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON-WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 614 AM CDT TUE MAR 25 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 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. $$
000 WWUS84 KMOB 251941 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 241 PM CDT TUE MAR 25 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...AND THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .DRY HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE AREA WILL SHIFT EASTWARD INTO THE ATLANTIC THROUGH WEDNESDAY ALLOWING FOR WINDS TO BECOME SOUTHEASTERLY AND GRADUALLY RETURN MOISTURE TO THE REGION. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL APPROACH CRITICAL LEVELS ACROSS INLAND SECTIONS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE ON WEDNESDAY AND WILL HAVE TO BE CLOSELY MONITORED. MOISTURE RETURNING TO THE REGION WILL KEEP RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-008-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-260000- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0033.000000T0000Z-080326T0000Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON-WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 241 PM CDT TUE MAR 25 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 1:46 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 18 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Alabama, 2008Red Flag Warnings in Mississippi, 2008Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2008Every 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.