Alert archive / Alabama / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 46, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Apr 30, 2008, 6:08 AM CDT for 8 counties in Alabama; Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 30, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Apr 30, 2008, 6:08 AM CDT (11:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 30, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Butler County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:09 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 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 2635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 301109 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 608 AM CDT WED APR 30 2008 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OVER THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... .HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE EASTERN STATES WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST...WITH INCREASING ONSHORE FLOW THROUGH THE DAY. A VERY DRY AIRMASS IS PRESENT OVER THE AREA...THOUGH...WITH AFTERNOON RH LEVELS EXPECTED TO DROP TO AROUND 25 PERCENT CLOSER TO THE COAST...AND INTO THE 20 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE INLAND. FLZ001>006-008-301900- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0040.080430T1700Z-080501T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0046.080430T1500Z-080501T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 608 AM CDT WED APR 30 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. A DRY AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THROUGH TODAY...WITH DAYTIME RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS DROPPING TO AROUND 25 PERCENT RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ ALZ056>060-301900- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0040.080430T1700Z-080501T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0046.080430T1800Z-080430T2300Z/ CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW-ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON- 608 AM CDT WED APR 30 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. A DRY AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THROUGH TODAY...WITH DAYTIME RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS DROPPING INTO THE 20 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ ALZ053>055-062-301900- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0046.080430T1800Z-080430T2300Z/ CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-UPPER BALDWIN- 608 AM CDT WED APR 30 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. A DRY AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THROUGH TODAY...WITH DAYTIME RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS DROPPING INTO THE 20 TO 25 PERCENT RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
Nearby
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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.