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Red Flag Warning 29, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 19, 20097 counties in Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Feb 19, 2009, 3:21 PM EST for 7 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 20, 2009, 10:00 AM EST. 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
Feb 19, 2009, 3:21 PM EST (20:21 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 20, 2009, 10:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 20, 2009, 7:00 PM EST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2009-02-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2009-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -244 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Feb 19, 3:01 PM EST, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 19, 3:01 PM EST, 20 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 19, 9:30 AM EST, 5 hours 51 minutes before
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Local storm report, Feb 19, 10:04 AM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 19, 4:09 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXHamilton51 min
Feb 19, 4:18 AM ESTFreeze WatchJAXBaker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union24 hr
Feb 19, 4:18 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXColumbia, Hamilton, Suwannee42 min
Feb 19, 4:55 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBaker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee65 min
Feb 19, 5:33 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningJAX117 min
Feb 19, 5:38 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClay, Duval, Nassau, Saint Johns52 min
Feb 19, 5:55 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBaker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Gilchrist, Union50 min
Feb 19, 6:29 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBradford, Clay, Duval, Union31 min
Feb 19, 6:44 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBradford, Gilchrist, Union31 min
Feb 19, 6:56 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXClay34 min
Feb 19, 7:19 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAlachua, Bradford, Gilchrist26 min
Feb 19, 7:29 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningJAX2 hr
Feb 19, 7:40 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXClay, Saint Johns35 min
Feb 19, 7:44 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAlachua31 min
Feb 19, 7:53 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAlachua37 min
Feb 19, 8:15 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPutnam, Saint Johns30 min
Feb 19, 8:27 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAlachua33 min
Feb 19, 8:46 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXFlagler, Putnam29 min
Feb 18, 8:49 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBacon26 min
Feb 18, 9:01 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXPierce29 min
Feb 19, 12:57 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAtkinson, Echols63 min
Feb 19, 1:22 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare53 min
Feb 19, 1:44 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBrantley, Ware46 min
Feb 19, 2:07 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClinch53 min
Feb 19, 2:37 AM ESTTornado WarningJAXClinch28 min
Feb 19, 3:02 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare43 min
Feb 19, 3:05 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXCoffee55 min
Feb 19, 3:26 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBrantley49 min
Feb 19, 3:35 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXAtkinson25 min
Feb 19, 3:42 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWayne33 min
Feb 19, 3:46 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBacon29 min
Feb 19, 4:06 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXWare24 min
Feb 19, 4:41 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementJAXBrantley, Clinch, Ware49 min

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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.