Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 53, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Jun 18, 2008, 4:03 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Jun 18, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 2 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
- Jun 18, 2008, 4:03 AM CDT (09:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 18, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2008, 2:26 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 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 09:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 9.1 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
- 1325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KMOB 180903 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 403 AM CDT WED JUN 18 2008 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING TO OR BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS FOR MORE THAN 4 HOURS... .DRIER AIR HAS MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION IN THE WAKE OF A WEAK COLD FRONT WHICH MOVED ACROSS THE REGION LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. AS A RESULT AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO THE 35 PERCENT RANGE OR LESS FOR MORE THAN 4 HOURS FOR MOST INTERIOR AREAS OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL HAVE TO CLOSELY MONITORED THROUGH FRIDAY. FLZ001>006-008-190000- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0053.080618T1700Z-080619T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 403 AM CDT WED JUN 18 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING DUE TO CRITICALLY LOW AFTERNOON AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. DRIER AIR HAS MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION IN THE WAKE OF A WEAK COLD FRONT WHICH MOVED ACROSS THE REGION LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. AS A RESULT AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL FALL TO THE 35 PERCENT RANGE OR LESS FOR MORE THAN 4 HOURS FOR MOST INTERIOR AREAS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL HAVE TO CLOSELY MONITORED THROUGH FRIDAY. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KMOB 181926 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 226 PM CDT WED JUN 18 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR INLAND SECTIONS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF A LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .A DRY AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THURSDAY. THE DRIEST CONDITIONS WILL BE FOUND ACROSS INLAND AREAS WHERE THE COASTAL SEA BREEZE WILL NOT REACH. FLZ001-003-005-191130- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.W.0053.000000T0000Z-080619T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0047.080619T1700Z-080619T2200Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- 226 PM CDT WED JUN 18 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT THURSDAY AFTERNOON... ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THE RED FLAG WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$ FLZ002-004-006-008-182030- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.W.0053.000000T0000Z-080619T0000Z/ COASTAL ESCAMBIA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 226 PM CDT WED JUN 18 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2:26 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | 15 hr |
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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.