Alert archive / Mississippi / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this red flag warning at Oct 29, 2012, 7:48 AM CDT for 8 counties in Mississippi. It took effect at Oct 29, 2012, 10:00 AM CDT. 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
- Oct 29, 2012, 7:48 AM CDT (12:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 29, 2012, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2012, 3:04 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
Counties Amite County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Pike County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 1697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
913 WWUS84 KLIX 291248 RFWLIX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 748 AM CDT MON OCT 29 2012 ...DRY AND BREEZY WEATHER WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS BURNING CONDITIONS TODAY... .VERY LOW LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 25 PERCENT COMBINED WITH NORTHERLY WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS AT TIMES WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY. MSZ068>071-077-080>082-292100- /O.NEW.KLIX.FW.W.0003.121029T1500Z-121029T2300Z/ WILKINSON-AMITE-PIKE-WALTHALL-PEARL RIVER-HANCOCK-HARRISON- JACKSON- 748 AM CDT MON OCT 29 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 068...069...070...071... 077...080...081 AND 082... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN MISSISSIPPI...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 068 WILKINSON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 069 AMITE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 070 PIKE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 071 WALTHALL...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 077 PEARL RIVER...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 080 HANCOCK...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 081 HARRISON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 082 JACKSON. * WIND...NORTH WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...20 TO 25 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ 22/TD
1 follow-up statement
847 WWUS84 KLIX 292004 RFWLIX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 304 PM CDT MON OCT 29 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED... .HUMIDITY AND WIND LEVELS ARE BEGINNING TO RETREAT FROM RED FLAG CRITERIA. RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. MSZ068>071-077-080>082-292115- /O.CAN.KLIX.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-121029T2300Z/ WILKINSON-AMITE-PIKE-WALTHALL-PEARL RIVER-HANCOCK-HARRISON- JACKSON- 304 PM CDT MON OCT 29 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 068...069...070...071...077...080...081 AND 082... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. MINIMAL RELATIVE HUMIDITY LEVELS HAVE SETTLED AROUND 30 PERCENT AND WILL BEGIN RISING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. $$ 24/RR
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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.