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Red Flag Warning 98, NWS Jacksonville, FL

December 5, 20107 counties in Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Dec 5, 2010, 3:43 PM EST for 7 counties in Florida. It took effect at Dec 6, 2010, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 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
Dec 5, 2010, 3:43 PM EST (20:43 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 6, 2010, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Dec 6, 2010, 6:00 PM EST
In force
7 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 20:45 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, 8.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2010-12-05Temperature 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 2010-12-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 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
896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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
Dec 5, 2:08 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryJAX68 hr
Dec 5, 2:31 AM ESTFire Weather WatchJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more15 hr
Dec 5, 2:31 AM ESTRed Flag WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more14 hr
Dec 5, 3:11 AM ESTFreeze WatchJAXFlagler17 hr
Dec 5, 3:11 AM ESTFreeze WarningJAXBaker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee, Union30 hr
Dec 5, 3:11 AM ESTHard Freeze WatchJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more24 hr
Dec 5, 2:46 PM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryJAXFlagler, Nassau18 hr
Dec 5, 3:43 PM ESTFire Weather WatchJAXBaker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Suwannee and 1 more10 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.