Alert archive / Alabama / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Jan 14, 2012, 5:37 AM CST for 10 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Jan 14, 2012, 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
- Jan 14, 2012, 5:37 AM CST (11:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 14, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2012, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:43 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
995 WWUS84 KMOB 141137 RFWMOB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 537 AM CST SAT JAN 14 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA FOR A MARGINALLY LONG DURATION OF VERY LOW HUMIDITY LESS THAN 25 PERCENT... .HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS CENTERED OVER THE NORTHERN GULF COAST... MAINTAINING A VERY DRY AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ARE FORECAST TO DROP INTO THE UPPER TEEN TO LOWER 20 PERCENT RANGE...WITH VALUES BELOW 25 PERCENT LASTING FOR 4 TO 5 HOURS. FLZ001>006-141245- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.A.0003.120114T1700Z-120114T2300Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- 537 AM CST SAT JAN 14 2012 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. WHILE AFTERNOON HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL DROP INTO THE LOWER 20S... FORECAST WIND...DISPERION...AND ERC VALUES DO NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A RED FLAG WARNING. THEREFORE...THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ ALZ051>064-142300- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0003.120114T1700Z-120114T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0005.120114T1800Z-120114T2300Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN- 537 AM CST SAT JAN 14 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA FOR A MARGINALLY LONG DURATION OF VERY LOW HUMIDITY LESS THAN 25 PERCENT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY...19 TO 22 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS WILL CREATE RAPID FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
129 WWUS84 KMOB 141957 RFWMOB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 157 PM CST SAT JAN 14 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA FOR A MARGINALLY LONG DURATION OF VERY LOW HUMIDITY LESS THAN 25 PERCENT... .HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS CENTERED OVER THE NORTHERN GULF COAST... MAINTAINING A VERY DRY AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ARE FORECAST TO DROP INTO THE UPPER TEEN TO LOWER 20 PERCENT RANGE...WITH VALUES BELOW 25 PERCENT LASTING FOR 4 TO 5 HOURS. ALZ051>064-142300- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0005.000000T0000Z-120114T2300Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN- 157 PM CST SAT JAN 14 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA FOR A MARGINALLY LONG DURATION OF VERY LOW HUMIDITY LESS THAN 25 PERCENT... * HUMIDITY...19 TO 22 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON. * 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 LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS WILL CREATE RAPID FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
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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.