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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 29, 201114 counties in Florida

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.

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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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-01-29Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-01-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.