Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 63, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at May 23, 2011, 2:02 PM CDT for 7 counties in Florida. It took effect at May 24, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 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
- May 23, 2011, 2:02 PM CDT (19:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 24, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 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 19:01 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 12:00Z, 7.0 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
- 2196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
767 WWUS82 KTAE 231902 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 302 PM EDT MON MAY 23 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA DUE TO EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY COUPLED WITH ELEVATED 20 FT WINDS AND A KBDI OF 500 OR GREATER.. ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND DUE TO EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY COUPLED WITH HIGH ERC VALUES... ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND WESTERN BIG BEND DUE TO AN EXPECTED COMBINATION OF LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY COUPLED WITH HIGH DISPERSIONS AND POSSIBLE ERC VALUES GREATER THAN 34... .PERSISTENT LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES COMBINED WITH HIGH ERC VALUES AND HIGH DISPERSIONS WILL CREATE A GOOD CHANCE OF RED FLAG CONDITIONS ON TUESDAY MAINLY OVER THE INLAND EASTERN PANHANDLE AND WESTERN BIG BEND OF FLORIDA. ON WEDNESDAY...A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND HIGH DISPERSIONS MAY CREATE RED FLAG CONDITIONS OVER A SIMILAR AREA...BUT CONFIDENCE IS NOT YET HIGH ENOUGH TO GO WITH A WATCH. FLZ007-009>013-016-026-240230- /O.UPG.KTAE.FW.A.0050.110524T1800Z-110525T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0063.110524T1800Z-110525T0000Z/ /O.CON.KTAE.FW.W.0062.000000T0000Z-110524T0000Z/ INLAND WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY-CALHOUN- GADSDEN-LIBERTY- 302 PM EDT MON MAY 23 2011 /202 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT /1 PM CDT/ TO 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT /1 PM CDT/ TO 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ TUESDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 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. && $$ ALZ065>069-FLZ008-017-027-029-034-240000- /O.CON.KTAE.FW.W.0062.000000T0000Z-110524T0000Z/ COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON-CENTRAL WALTON-LEON- INLAND WAKULLA-LAFAYETTE-INLAND DIXIE- 302 PM EDT MON MAY 23 2011 /202 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ DVD
2 follow-up statements
764 WWUS82 KTAE 240051 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 851 PM EDT MON MAY 23 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND WESTERN BIG BEND DUE TO AN EXPECTED COMBINATION OF LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY COUPLED WITH HIGH DISPERSIONS AND POSSIBLE ERC VALUES GREATER THAN 34... .PERSISTENT LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES COMBINED WITH HIGH ERC VALUES AND HIGH DISPERSIONS WILL CREATE A GOOD CHANCE OF RED FLAG CONDITIONS ON TUESDAY MAINLY OVER THE INLAND EASTERN PANHANDLE AND WESTERN BIG BEND OF FLORIDA. ON WEDNESDAY...A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND HIGH DISPERSIONS MAY CREATE RED FLAG CONDITIONS OVER A SIMILAR AREA...BUT CONFIDENCE IS NOT YET HIGH ENOUGH TO GO WITH A WATCH. FLZ007-009>013-016-026-241100- /O.CON.KTAE.FW.W.0063.110524T1800Z-110525T0000Z/ INLAND WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY-CALHOUN- GADSDEN-LIBERTY- 851 PM EDT MON MAY 23 2011 /751 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2011/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT /1 PM CDT/ TO 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT /1 PM CDT/ TO 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ TUESDAY. 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. && $$ DVD
699 WWUS82 KTAE 241047 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 647 AM EDT TUE MAY 24 2011 ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON IN THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND WESTERN BIG BEND... .AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES REACHING INTO THE MID 90S AND DEW POINT TEMPERATURES AROUND 60 OVER INLAND AREAS OF FLORIDA WILL RESULT IN LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES. OVER THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND WESTERN BIG BEND ERC VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO BE WELL ABOVE 34. DISPERSIONS WILL ALSO BE RELATIVELY HIGH. THUS RED FLAG CRITERIA ARE EXPECTED TO BE MET IN THESE AREAS THIS AFTERNOON. FLZ007-009>013-016-026-241900- /O.CON.KTAE.FW.W.0063.110524T1800Z-110525T0000Z/ INLAND WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY-CALHOUN- GADSDEN-LIBERTY- 647 AM EDT TUE MAY 24 2011 /547 AM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011/ ...A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT /1 PM CDT/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING DUE TO EXPECTED LONG DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT...COUPLED WITH EXPECTED ERC VALUES WELL ABOVE 34... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY COMBINED WITH HIGH ERC LEVELS AND RELATIVELY HIGH DISPERSIONS WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ DUVAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 1:48 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more | 7 hr |
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.