Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 22, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 2, 2011, 3:15 AM CST for 12 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 2, 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
- Mar 2, 2011, 3:15 AM CST (09:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 2, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2011, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden 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), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:19 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
006 WWUS82 KTAE 020915 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 415 AM EST WED MAR 2 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ UNTIL 6 PM EST /5 PM CST/ THIS EVENING DUE TO BRIEF DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY LESS THAN 35 PERCENT COINCIDENT WITH DISPERSION INDICES ABOVE 75... .A DRIER AIRMASS WILL DESCEND OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND COMBINE WITH STRONG TRANSPORT WINDS TO PRODUCE A PERIOD OF RED FLAG CONDITIONS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH FLORIDA. FLZ007>011-013-016>019-026>029-022300- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0022.110302T1800Z-110302T2300Z/ INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-CALHOUN- GADSDEN-LEON-INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY-INLAND WAKULLA- INLAND TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE- 415 AM EST WED MAR 2 2011 /315 AM CST WED MAR 2 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. && $$ 38-GODSEY
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.