Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 24, 2011, 4:14 AM CST for 11 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 24, 2011, 12:00 PM CST. 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
- Jan 24, 2011, 4:14 AM CST (10:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 24, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2011, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Madison County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 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 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 2564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
875 WWUS82 KTAE 241014 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 514 AM EST MON JAN 24 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR WALTON...HOLMES...WASHINGTON...AND JACKSON COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FOR LIKELY 4 HOUR DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .DISCUSSION...ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE A VERY CLOSE CALL TODAY...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY DURATIONS APPEAR TO BE JUST LONG ENOUGH TO WARRANT A RED FLAG WARNING FOR NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. INCREASING MOISTURE AND WIDESPREAD RAIN WILL KEEP RELATIVE HUMIDITIES VERY HIGH THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON TUESDAY...AND THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY FOR ANY RED FLAG CONDITIONS MAY NOT BE UNTIL THE END OF THE WEEK. FLZ007>011-242300- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0012.110124T1800Z-110124T2300Z/ INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON- 414 AM CST MON JAN 24 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. 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. && $$ 17-GOULD
1 follow-up statement
771 WWUS82 KTAE 241827 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 127 PM EST MON JAN 24 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ TODAY FOR THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ALL BUT COASTAL AND SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND... .DISCUSSION...IT NOW APPEARS THAT SUFFICIENT DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL OCCUR TO MEET RED FLAG CRITERIA IN FLORIDA AS FAR EAST AS MADISON COUNTY AND THE WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED EASTWARD. INCREASING MOISTURE AND WIDESPREAD RAIN WILL KEEP RELATIVE HUMIDITY VERY HIGH THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON TUESDAY. THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY FOR ANY RED FLAG CONDITIONS WILL COME LATE IN THE WEEK. FLZ012-013-016>019-026-027-108-112-242300- /O.EXA.KTAE.FW.W.0012.000000T0000Z-110124T2300Z/ INLAND BAY-CALHOUN-GADSDEN-LEON-INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY- INLAND WAKULLA-SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 127 PM EST MON JAN 24 2011 /1227 PM CST MON JAN 24 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING DUE TO LONG DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ FLZ007>011-242300- /O.CON.KTAE.FW.W.0012.000000T0000Z-110124T2300Z/ INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON- 1227 PM CST MON JAN 24 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO LONG DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT. 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. && $$ 18-WOOL
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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.