Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 45, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Oct 28, 2012, 4:17 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Oct 28, 2012, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for . 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 28, 2012, 4:17 AM CDT (09:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 28, 2012, 2:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2012, 11:07 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
328 WWUS82 KTAE 280917 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 517 AM EDT SUN OCT 28 2012 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF WALTON...HOLMES...WASHINGTON...AND BAY COUNTIES... ...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NOW IN IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING FOR ALL OF THE COUNTIES IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... .WITH THE MUCH COOLER AND DRIER AIR CONTINUING TO ADVECT IN FROM THE NORTHWEST TODAY...CONDITIONS WILL BE JUST DRY ENOUGH AND CALCULATED DISPERSIONS WILL BE JUST HIGH ENOUGH TO PRODUCE A SHORT-LIVED RED FLAG WARNING ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE TODAY. WITH MUCH MORE WIDESPREAD FAVORABLE FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED ON MONDAY...WE HAVE BLANKETED ALL OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND AN PANHANDLE ZONES WITH A LONGER DURATION FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH WILL LIKELY BE ABLE TO UPGRADED LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. FLZ007>010-012-108-112-282215- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0045.121028T1900Z-121028T2200Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.A.0035.121029T1700Z-121030T0000Z/ INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-INLAND BAY- SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 417 AM CDT SUN OCT 28 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR FOR ALL OF WALTON...HOLMES...WASHINGTON...AND BAY COUNTIES... ...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING FOR THIS SAME REGION... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER COUNTIES WALTON...HOLMES... WASHINGTON AND BAY COUNTIES. * PEAK WIND...NORTHWEST WIND AT 10 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON TODAY...AND NORTHWEST AROUND 15 MPH WITH GUSTS 20 TO 32 MPH ON MONDAY. * HUMIDITY...LESS THAN 35 PERCENT TODAY AND 20 TO 30 PERCENT ON MONDAY. * THUNDERSTORMS...NONE. * 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. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. && $$ FLZ011-013>019-026>029-034-114-115-118-127-128-134-282215- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.A.0035.121029T1700Z-121030T0000Z/ JACKSON-CALHOUN-INLAND GULF-INLAND FRANKLIN-GADSDEN-LEON- INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY-INLAND WAKULLA-INLAND TAYLOR- LAFAYETTE-INLAND DIXIE-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN- COASTAL JEFFERSON-COASTAL WAKULLA-COASTAL TAYLOR-COASTAL DIXIE- 517 AM EDT SUN OCT 28 2012 /417 AM CDT SUN OCT 28 2012/ ...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING FOR ALL OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...ALL THE FIRE WEATHER ZONES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND. * WIND...NORTHWEST WIND 14 TO 22 MPH TODAY...AND 17 WITH GUSTS TO 32 MPH ON MONDAY. * HUMIDITY...20 TO 35 PERCENT ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. * THUNDERSTORMS...NONE. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. && $$ 17-GOULD
1 follow-up statement
319 WWUS82 KTAE 281607 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1207 PM EDT SUN OCT 28 2012 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF WALTON...HOLMES...WASHINGTON...AND BAY COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...A FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING FOR ALL OF THE COUNTIES IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... .LOW LEVEL CLOUDS HAVE PERSISTED THIS MORNING ACROSS THE WESTERN FLORIDA COUNTIES KEEPING TEMPERATURES COOLER AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HIGHER THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED. THEREFORE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE NOT EXPECTED TO DROP BELOW 35 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON EVEN THOUGH ERC AND 20 FOOT WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN HIGH. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR THESE COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WITH MUCH MORE WIDESPREAD FAVORABLE FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED ON MONDAY...ALL OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE ZONES WILL REMAIN IN A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH WILL LIKELY BE ABLE TO UPGRADED LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. FLZ007>010-012-108-112-290015- /O.CAN.KTAE.FW.W.0045.121028T1900Z-121028T2200Z/ /O.CON.KTAE.FW.A.0035.121029T1700Z-121030T0000Z/ INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-HOLMES-WASHINGTON-INLAND BAY- SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 1107 AM CDT SUN OCT 28 2012 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING FOR FOR ALL OF WALTON...HOLMES... WASHINGTON...AND BAY COUNTIES...... ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR FOR ALL OF WALTON...HOLMES... WASHINGTON...AND BAY COUNTIES THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER COUNTIES WALTON...HOLMES... WASHINGTON AND BAY COUNTIES. * PEAK WIND...NORTHWEST WIND AROUND 15 MPH WITH GUSTS 20 TO 32 MPH. * HUMIDITY...20 TO 30 PERCENT. * THUNDERSTORMS...NONE. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. && $$ FLZ011-013>019-026>029-034-114-115-118-127-128-134-290015- /O.CON.KTAE.FW.A.0035.121029T1700Z-121030T0000Z/ JACKSON-CALHOUN-INLAND GULF-INLAND FRANKLIN-GADSDEN-LEON- INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY-INLAND WAKULLA-INLAND TAYLOR- LAFAYETTE-INLAND DIXIE-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN- COASTAL JEFFERSON-COASTAL WAKULLA-COASTAL TAYLOR-COASTAL DIXIE- 1207 PM EDT SUN OCT 28 2012 /1107 AM CDT SUN OCT 28 2012/ ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY EVENING FOR ALL OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE... * AFFECTED AREA...ALL THE FIRE WEATHER ZONES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND. * WIND...NORTHWEST WIND 17 WITH GUSTS TO 32 MPH. * HUMIDITY...20 TO 35 PERCENT. * THUNDERSTORMS...NONE. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 4:17 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 10 hr |
| Oct 28, 1:58 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 25 hr |
| Oct 28, 1:58 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 30 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.