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Red Flag Warning 44, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 29, 201010 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 29, 2010, 5:04 AM CDT for 10 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 29, 2010, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 29, 2010, 5:04 AM CDT (10:04 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 29, 2010, 2:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 29, 2010, 2:14 PM CDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 330 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: 170 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Mar 29, 1:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 1:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 5:04 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	9 hr
Mar 29, 2:14 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	24 hr
Mar 29, 2:14 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	28 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2010 Every 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.