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Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Jacksonville, FL

January 8, 20106 counties in Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 8, 2010, 2:43 PM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 9, 2010, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 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 8, 2010, 2:43 PM EST (19:43 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 9, 2010, 10:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 9, 2010, 6:00 PM EST
In force
8 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 19:46 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, 7.7 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 2010-01-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2010-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -104 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jan 8, 9:45 AM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 9:45 AM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 4:25 AM ESTFreeze WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more30 hr
Jan 8, 4:25 AM ESTHard Freeze WatchJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more23 hr
Jan 8, 4:25 AM ESTHard Freeze WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union30 hr
Jan 8, 4:30 AM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more30 hr
Jan 8, 2:43 PM ESTFire Weather WatchJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more24 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2010Every red flag warning in 2010

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.