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Red Flag Warning 65, NWS Jacksonville, FL

November 5, 2009Suwannee County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Nov 5, 2009, 2:06 PM EST for Suwannee County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 6, 2009, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 5 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
Nov 5, 2009, 2:06 PM EST (19:06 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 6, 2009, 12:00 PM EST
Expired
Nov 6, 2009, 5:00 PM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

County Suwannee County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 2009-11-05Temperature 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 2009-11-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -54 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 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
Nov 5, 5:10 AM ESTFire Weather WatchJAXSuwannee9 hr
Nov 5, 5:10 AM ESTRed Flag WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union13 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.