Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 37, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at May 30, 2012, 5:26 AM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at May 30, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 3 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 30, 2012, 5:26 AM EDT (09:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 30, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 30, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:27 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
789 WWUS82 KTAE 300926 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 526 AM EDT WED MAY 30 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT /1 PM CDT/ TO 5 PM EDT /4 PM CDT/ THIS AFTERNOON FOR PORTIONS OF INLAND FLORIDA DUE TO A COMBINATION OF SEVERAL HOURS OF LOW HUMIDITY... DISPERSIONS ABOVE 75 AND AN ERC OVER 20... .UNLIKE MORE EASTERN AREAS...THE INLAND FLORIDA PANHANDLE DID NOT BENEFIT FROM RECENT BERYL RELATED RAIN. AS SUCH...HUMIDITIES WILL REMAIN JUST LOW ENOUGH THAT WHEN COMBINED WITH HIGH DISPERSIONS INDUCED BY HIGH MIXING HEIGHTS AND PERSISTENT HIGH ERC VALUES... WILL BRIEFLY GENERATE RED FLAG CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. FLZ007-009-011-016-302100- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0037.120530T1800Z-120530T2100Z/ INLAND WALTON-HOLMES-JACKSON-GADSDEN- 526 AM EDT WED MAY 30 2012 /426 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT /1 PM CDT/ TO 5 PM EDT /4 PM CDT/ THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT /1 PM CDT/ TO 5 PM EDT /4 PM CDT/ THIS AFTERNOON. * ERC...30 TO 36. * HUMIDITY...32 TO 35 PERCENT. * DISPERSIONS...75 TO 90. * 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. && $$ BLOCK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 11:44 PM EDT | Dense Smoke Advisory | TAE | Walton | 10 hr |
| May 30, 3:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 49 min |
| May 30, 3:35 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 55 min | |
| May 30, 4:27 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| May 30, 5:42 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 63 min | |
| May 30, 5:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 53 min |
| May 30, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton, Washington | 54 min |
| May 30, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 66 min |
| May 30, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Wakulla | 48 min |
| May 30, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 30 min |
| May 30, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 63 min |
| May 30, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 29 min |
| May 30, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 59 min |
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.