Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 21, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Feb 26, 2011, 3:25 AM CST for 7 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 26, 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
- Feb 26, 2011, 3:25 AM CST (09:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 26, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 26, 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, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:31 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 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
573 WWUS82 KTAE 260925 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 425 AM EST SAT FEB 26 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ THIS EVENING FOR MOST INTERIOR PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND A SMALL PORTION OF THE WESTERN BIG BEND DUE TO EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .IT NOW APPEARS THAT INTERIOR PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND A SMALL PORTION OF THE WESTERN BIG BEND WILL EXPERIENCE CRITICAL DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY THIS AFTERNOON AND A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED. AFTER TODAY WE DON'T EXPECT FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS UNTIL POSSIBLY TUESDAY WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE NEXT COLD FRONT. FLZ007-009>013-016-026-262030- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0021.110226T1800Z-110226T2300Z/ INLAND WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY-CALHOUN- GADSDEN-LIBERTY- 425 AM EST SAT FEB 26 2011 /325 AM CST SAT FEB 26 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ THIS EVENING. 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. && $$ BARRY
1 follow-up statement
500 WWUS82 KTAE 261952 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 252 PM EST SAT FEB 26 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ THIS EVENING FOR MOST INTERIOR PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND A SMALL PORTION OF THE WESTERN BIG BEND DUE TO EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... FLZ007-009>013-016-026-262300- /O.CON.KTAE.FW.W.0021.000000T0000Z-110226T2300Z/ INLAND WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY-CALHOUN- GADSDEN-LIBERTY- 252 PM EST SAT FEB 26 2011 /152 PM CST SAT FEB 26 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ THIS EVENING. FOUR HOURS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BELOW 35 PERCENT ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ DVD
Nearby
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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.