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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Jacksonville, FL

January 15, 20096 counties in Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 15, 2009, 1:59 PM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 16, 2009, 9:00 AM EST. It was in force for 10 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
Jan 15, 2009, 1:59 PM EST (18:59 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 16, 2009, 9:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 16, 2009, 7:00 PM EST
In force
10 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 18:59 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 12:00Z, 7.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2009-01-15Temperature 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 2009-01-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -72 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
3304 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 14, 9:33 PM ESTHard Freeze WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union11 hr
Jan 15, 4:05 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryJAX46 hr
Jan 15, 4:33 AM ESTFreeze WatchJAXFlagler24 hr
Jan 15, 4:33 AM ESTFreeze WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more28 hr
Jan 15, 4:33 AM ESTHard Freeze WatchJAXBaker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union24 hr
Jan 15, 4:33 AM ESTHard Freeze WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union28 hr
Jan 15, 4:49 AM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more29 hr

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.