Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2009
Red Flag Warning 52, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Apr 23, 2009, 1:51 PM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Apr 24, 2009, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 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 23, 2009, 1:51 PM EDT (17:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 24, 2009, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2009, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.