Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 64, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Oct 24, 2008, 2:11 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 25, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 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
- Oct 24, 2008, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 25, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2008, 2:42 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 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 19:13 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, 7.2 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
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 430 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 940 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 241911 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 211 PM CDT FRI OCT 24 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 5 PM CDT SATURDAY FOR A SUSTAINED PERIOD OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OVER THE WEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE... .SKIES WILL CLEAR THIS EVENING AS THE CLOUDS FOLLOWING THIS MORNINGS FRONT DISSIPATE. DRIER AIR ARRIVES SATURDAY MORNING WITH LOW HUMIDITY AND A GENERALLY LIGHT NORTHERLY WIND ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. DAYTIME DISPERSIONS ONLY FAIR TO AVERAGE WITH THE LIGHTER WINDS ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTER OF HIGH PRESSURE THAT WILL BE OVER THE AREA. FLZ001>006-008-251100- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0064.081025T1700Z-081025T2200Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 211 PM CDT FRI OCT 24 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 5 PM CDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 5 PM CDT SATURDAY. SURFACE HUMIDITY IS EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN 35 PERCENT FOR MORE THAN 4 HOURS OVER THE AREA ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE RAPID FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS84 KMOB 251059 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 559 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON AND A FIRE WEATHER WATCH BOTH SUNDAY AND MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .A COLD FRONT ADVANCING FROM THE PLAINS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING. DRIER AND COOLER AIR WILL FLOW INTO THE AREA IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS EACH DAY THROUGH TUESDAY. FLZ001>006-008-260300- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0060.081026T1700Z-081026T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0061.081027T1600Z-081027T2300Z/ /O.EXT.KMOB.FW.W.0064.081025T1700Z-081025T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 559 AM CDT SAT OCT 25 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT SUNDAY AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT SUNDAY AFTERNOON. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL DROP BELOW 35 PERCENT EACH AFTERNOON FOR MORE THAN 4 HOURS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE RAPID FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$
000 WWUS84 KMOB 251942 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 200 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT BOTH SUNDAY AND MONDAY AFTERNOONS FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .DRIER AND COOLER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO FLOW INTO THE AREA AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES MAY DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS EACH AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY. FLZ001>006-008-261145- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.W.0064.000000T0000Z-081025T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.A.0060.081026T1700Z-081026T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.A.0061.081027T1600Z-081027T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 200 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 2008 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT BOTH SUNDAY AND MONDAY AFTERNOONS FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR THIS AFTERNOON IS CANCELLED... DRIER AND COOLER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO FLOW INTO THE AREA AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES MAY DROP BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS EACH AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. $$
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.