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Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Jacksonville, FL

January 9, 20107 counties in Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 9, 2010, 2:18 PM EST for 7 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 10, 2010, 12:00 PM EST. 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: Jan 9, 2010, 2:18 PM EST (19:18 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 10, 2010, 12:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 10, 2010, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 6 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 19:20 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, 7.3 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 93 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 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 9, 1:50 PM EST, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 1:50 PM EST, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 9, 2:16 PM EST, 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 9, 10:43 AM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 3:09 AM EST	Freeze Warning	JAX	Flagler	11 hr
Jan 9, 3:09 AM EST	Hard Freeze Warning	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	32 hr
Jan 9, 2:09 PM EST	Hard Freeze Watch	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	13 hr
Jan 9, 2:11 PM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	21 hr
Jan 9, 2:18 PM EST	Fire Weather Watch	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more	14 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.