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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Jacksonville, FL

March 3, 2013Flagler County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 3, 2013, 3:44 AM EST for Flagler County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 3, 2013, 1:00 PM EST. 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: Mar 3, 2013, 3:44 AM EST (08:44 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 3, 2013, 1:00 PM EST
Expired: Mar 3, 2013, 11:24 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

County Flagler County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 224 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 105 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Mar 2, 6:08 PM EST, 9 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 6:08 PM EST, 9 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 2, 6:01 PM EST, 9 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 3:38 AM EST	Freeze Warning	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Flagler, Gilchrist, Nassau, Union	29 hr
Mar 3, 3:38 AM EST	Hard Freeze Warning	JAX	Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Suwannee, Union	29 hr
Mar 3, 2:42 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	JAX		12 hr

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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.