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Red Flag Warning 103, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Oct 30, 2011, 3:48 AM EDT for Gadsden County, Leon County, Wakulla County, Florida; 5 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Oct 30, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT. 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
- Oct 30, 2011, 3:48 AM EDT (07:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 30, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 30, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Gadsden County, FL, Leon County, FL, Wakulla County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
644 WWUS82 KTAE 300748 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 348 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES CONCURRENT WITH SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF AT LEAST 10 MPH... ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR LEON...GADSDEN...LIBERTY AND INLAND WAKULLA COUNTIES IN THE FLORIDA BIG BEND FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES CONCURRENT WITH DISPERSIONS GREATER THAN 75. ALTHOUGH LOW LEVEL WINDS WILL VEER TO A NORTHEAST DIRECTION TODAY AND BEGIN TO BRING INCREASING MOISTURE BACK INTO THE TRI- STATE AREA...DRY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST ONE MORE DAY. THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND ENHANCED 20 FOOT WINDS HAS RESULTED IN THE HOISTING OF A RED FLAG WARNING ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. THE COMBINATION OF LOW HUMIDITIES PLUS HIGH DISPERSIONS WILL ALSO YIELD A RED FLAG WARNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN BIG BEND. INCREASING MOISTURE WILL PRECLUDE ANY HEADLINES ON MONDAY. FLZ007>015-018-108-112-114-300900- /O.CAN.KTAE.FW.A.0085.111030T1800Z-111030T2300Z/ INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY- CALHOUN-INLAND GULF-INLAND FRANKLIN-INLAND JEFFERSON-SOUTH WALTON- COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 348 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 /248 AM CDT SUN OCT 30 2011/ ...THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH FLORIDA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. ALTHOUGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL REMAIN LOW...NEITHER DISPERSIONS NOR SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS WILL REALIZE RED FLAG CRITERIA. $$ ALZ065>069-302300- /O.UPG.KTAE.FW.A.0085.111030T1800Z-111030T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0103.111030T1800Z-111030T2300Z/ COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON- 248 AM CDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES CONCURRENT WITH SUSTAINED 20 FOOT WINDS OF AT LEAST 10 MPH... * WIND...NORTH WIND AROUND 10 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 20 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM VALUES 20 TO 25 PERCENT. * KBDI...BETWEEN 600 TO 700. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ FLZ016-017-026-027-302300- /O.UPG.KTAE.FW.A.0085.111030T1800Z-111030T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0103.111030T1800Z-111030T2300Z/ GADSDEN-LEON-LIBERTY-INLAND WAKULLA- 348 AM EDT SUN OCT 30 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES CONCURRENT WITH DISPERSIONS GREATER THAN 75. * WIND...NORTH WIND AROUND 10 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 18 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM VALUES 24 TO 31 PERCENT. * DISPERSION...MAXIMUM VALUES BETWEEN 75 AND 80. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ BLOCK
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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.