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Red Flag Warning 22, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 2, 201112 counties in Florida

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.

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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, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 2011-03-02Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2011-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -89 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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

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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.