Alert archive / Georgia / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 33, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Apr 3, 2011, 4:31 AM EDT for 26 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Apr 3, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Apr 3, 2011, 4:31 AM EDT (08:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 3, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
All 26 counties
Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 2176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
833 WWUS82 KTAE 030831 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 431 AM EDT SUN APR 3 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... .A DRIER AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE TO OVERSPREAD THE REGION TODAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN A PERIOD OF RED FLAG CONDITIONS ACROSS SOUTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. IN FLORIDA...THE RH CRITERIA WILL EASILY BE SATISFIED BUT DISPERSIONS AND ERC VALUES WILL FALL SHORT OF WARNING CRITERIA. THE AIR MASS WILL MOISTEN TOMORROW AHEAD OF A RAPIDLY APPROACHING STORM SYSTEM. RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED. FLZ007-009>011-013-015>019-026>029-034-030945- /O.CAN.KTAE.FW.A.0026.110403T1700Z-110404T0000Z/ INLAND WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-CALHOUN-INLAND FRANKLIN- GADSDEN-LEON-INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY-INLAND WAKULLA- INLAND TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE-INLAND DIXIE- 431 AM EDT SUN APR 3 2011 /331 AM CDT SUN APR 3 2011/ ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. ALTHOUGH LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICAL RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED...DISPERSIONS WILL FALL SHORT OF 75 AND ERC WILL BE BELOW 35. THEREFORE THE WATCH WAS TERMINATED. $$ GAZ125>131-145>148-157>161-040000- /O.UPG.KTAE.FW.A.0026.110403T1900Z-110403T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0033.110403T1700Z-110404T0000Z/ DOUGHERTY-LEE-WORTH-TURNER-TIFT-BEN HILL-IRWIN-MITCHELL-COLQUITT- COOK-BERRIEN-GRADY-THOMAS-BROOKS-LOWNDES-LANIER- 431 AM EDT SUN APR 3 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. IN EXCESS OF FOUR HOURS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 25 PERCENT ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. THEREFORE THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A RED FLAG WARNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ GAZ120>124-142>144-155-156-040000- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0033.110403T1700Z-110404T0000Z/ QUITMAN-CLAY-RANDOLPH-CALHOUN-TERRELL-EARLY-MILLER-BAKER-SEMINOLE- DECATUR- 431 AM EDT SUN APR 3 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. IN EXCESS OF FOUR HOURS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 25 PERCENT ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. THEREFORE A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED. 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. && $$ BLOCK
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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.