Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 44, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Oct 19, 2012, 9:58 PM EDT for 7 counties in Florida. It took effect at Oct 20, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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 19, 2012, 9:58 PM EDT (01:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 20, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Gadsden County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 2764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
825 WWUS82 KTAE 200158 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 958 PM EDT FRI OCT 19 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR LEON AND WAKULLA COUNTIES IN THE FLORIDA BIG BEND DUE TO LONG DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH ERCS OF 35 OR GREATER... .WITH THE VERY DRY AIRMASS REMAINING IN PLACE...LOW AFTERNOON HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN ON SATURDAY. ALTHOUGH ONLY LEON AND WAKULLA COUNTIES APPEAR TO BE SURE BETS FOR RED FLAG CONDITIONS AT THIS TIME...A SLIGHT RISE IN ERCS OR DISPERSIONS IN OTHER NORTH FLORIDA COUNTIES COULD LEAD TO A LARGER AREA OF RED FLAG CONDITIONS...SO THIS WILL BE MONITORED CLOSELY. FLZ017-027-127-201130- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0044.121020T1700Z-121021T0000Z/ LEON-INLAND WAKULLA-COASTAL WAKULLA- 958 PM EDT FRI OCT 19 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM EDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM EDT SATURDAY. * AFFECTED AREA...LEON AND WAKULLA COUNTIES. * WIND...NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM 24 TO 26 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. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ 17-GOULD
1 follow-up statement
712 WWUS82 KTAE 200835 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 435 AM EDT SAT OCT 20 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE THIS MORNING TO EARLY THIS EVENING FOR SOME PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND EAST OF THE APALACHICOLA RIVER... .ANOTHER DAY OF VERY DRY WEATHER AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA. FOR THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND THIS MEANS ROUGHLY 8 TO 9 HOURS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT TODAY. TO THE EAST OF THE APALACHICOLA RIVER...AND MOSTLY AWAY FROM THE GULF COAST...HIGHER DISPERSIONS AND ERC VALUES WILL SUPPORT RED FLAG CONDITIONS IN MOST AREAS. FLZ016-018-019-026-028-029-210000- /O.EXB.KTAE.FW.W.0044.121020T1500Z-121021T0000Z/ GADSDEN-INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY-INLAND TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE- 435 AM EDT SAT OCT 20 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA: GADSDEN...INLAND JEFFERSON...LAFAYETTE...LIBERTY ...MADISON AND INLAND TAYLOR COUNTIES. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM VALUES 23 TO 25 PERCENT. VALUES BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR 8 TO 9 HOUR DURATIONS. * DISPERSION...MAXIMUM VALUES 75 TO 90. * ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT...23 TO 26. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL ENHANCE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ FLZ017-027-127-210000- /O.EXT.KTAE.FW.W.0044.121020T1500Z-121021T0000Z/ LEON-INLAND WAKULLA-COASTAL WAKULLA- 435 AM EDT SAT OCT 20 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * AFFECTED AREA...LEON AND WAKULLA COUNTIES. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM VALUES 23 TO 25 PERCENT. VALUES BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR 8 TO 9 HOUR DURATIONS. * DISPERSION...MAXIMUM VALUES 75 TO 85. * ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT...37. * 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
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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.