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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 29, 2011, 12:04 PM CST for 14 counties in Florida. 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 29, 2011, 12:04 PM CST (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2011, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
062 WWUS82 KTAE 291804 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 104 PM EST SAT JAN 29 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR INLAND PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE..AND INLAND PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND EXCEPT FOR DIXIE COUNTY...IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... .TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED MORE RAPIDLY THAN ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED THIS AFTERNOON...RESULTING IN A MORE RAPID DROP IN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS THE AREA. DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT ARE NOW EXPECTED TO EQUAL OR EXCEED 4 HOURS ACROSS MOST INLAND PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND FLORIDA BIG BEND...EXCEPT FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST ACROSS DIXIE COUNTY. FLZ007>014-016>019-026>029-292300- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0013.110129T1804Z-110129T2300Z/ INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY- CALHOUN-INLAND GULF-GADSDEN-LEON-INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY- INLAND WAKULLA-INLAND TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE- 104 PM EST SAT JAN 29 2011 /1204 PM CST SAT JAN 29 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ THIS EVENING FOR LONG DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... WARMER TEMPERATURES HAVE RESULTED IN A MORE RAPID DECREASE IN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...AND DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT ARE EXPECTED TO MEET OR EXCEED RED FLAG CRITERIA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL DEVELOP SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ DUVAL
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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.