Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 27, 2012, 2:19 PM CDT for 10 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 28, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 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 27, 2012, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2012, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2012, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Madison County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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, 7.3 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
- 1943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
422 WWUS82 KTAE 271919 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 319 PM EDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR INLAND PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA EASTERN PANHANDLE DUE TO A POSSIBLE COMBINATION OF LOW HUMIDITY AND HIGH DISPERSIONS... .LOWEST HUMIDITY WILL DROP INTO THE LOWER 30S ACROSS THE INLAND FLORIDA PANHANDLE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. HIGH MIXING HEIGHTS WILL LIKELY YIELD DISPERSIONS ABOVE 90. FLZ007>013-281130- /O.UPG.KTAE.FW.A.0017.120328T1800Z-120328T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0018.120328T1800Z-120328T2300Z/ INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY- CALHOUN- 219 PM CDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO TO 6 PM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR A COMBINATION OF LOW HUMIDITY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 6 PM CDT WEDNESDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA....INLAND PORTIONS OF NORTHERN FLORIDA * WIND...ONSHORE 5 TO 10 MPH. * HUMIDITY...28 TO 33 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. * DISPERSION....85 TO 95 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. && $$ FLZ016>019-026-281130- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0018.120328T1800Z-120328T2300Z/ GADSDEN-LEON-INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY- 319 PM EDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 7 PM EDT WEDNESDAY FOR FOR A COMBINATION OF LOW HUMIDITY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 7 PM EDT WEDNESDAY. * AFFECTED AREA....INLAND PORTIONS OF NORTHERN FLORIDA * WIND...ONSHORE 5 TO 10 MPH. * HUMIDITY...28 TO 33 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. * DISPERSION....80 TO 90 PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$
1 follow-up statement
586 WWUS82 KTAE 280904 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 504 AM EDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF THE INLAND FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO A COMBINATION OF LOW HUMIDITY AND HIGH DISPERSIONS... .ANOTHER DRY DAY WITH DEEP MIXING IS EXPECTED. AFTERNOON MINIMUM HUMIDITY WILL FALL TO AROUND 30 PERCENT WITH A FAIRLY UNSTABLE LOWER ATMOSPHERE. THIS WILL CAUSE RED FLAG CRITERIA TO BE MET ACROSS MOST OF THE INTERIOR PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON FOR ABOUT A 3 TO 4 HOUR TIME FRAME. FLZ007>013-016>019-026-282200- /O.EXT.KTAE.FW.W.0018.120328T1800Z-120328T2200Z/ INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY- CALHOUN-GADSDEN-LEON-INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY- 504 AM EDT WED MAR 28 2012 /404 AM CDT WED MAR 28 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT /1 PM CDT/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM EDT /5 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... * AFFECTED AREA...MUCH OF THE INLAND FLORIDA PANHANDLE. * WIND...SOUTHEAST AROUND 5 MPH EARLY IN THE MORNING...BECOMING SOUTH AROUND 10 MPH BY AFTERNOON. GUSTS TO 15 MPH. * HUMIDITY...28 TO 33 PERCENT. * DISPERSION...75 TO 100. * 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. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ 08-LAMERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:53 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 11 hr |
| Mar 27, 5:19 AM CDT | Dense Smoke Advisory | TAE | Leon | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 2:25 PM CDT | Dense Smoke Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Leon | 12 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.