Alert archive / Alabama / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this red flag warning at Jan 23, 2014, 2:04 PM CST for 39 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Jan 24, 2014, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 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
- Jan 23, 2014, 2:04 PM CST (20:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 24, 2014, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
All 39 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 1760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
298 WWUS84 KBMX 232004 RFWBMX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 204 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 ...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES THIS AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ON FRIDAY... ALZ030>050-240000- /O.UPG.KBMX.FW.A.0004.140124T1700Z-140125T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KBMX.FW.W.0009.140124T1700Z-140125T0000Z/ /O.CON.KBMX.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-140123T2300Z/ SUMTER-GREENE-HALE-PERRY-BIBB-CHILTON-COOSA-TALLAPOOSA-CHAMBERS- MARENGO-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE-MONTGOMERY-MACON-BULLOCK- LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- 204 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY FOR ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...WILL BE FROM THE NORTH 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 20 MPH TODAY. WEAKER WINDS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY...WITH SUSTAINED NORTHEASTERLY WINDS UP TO 8 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WILL DROP AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON...AND AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT FRIDAY. * IMPACTS...OF A DRY AIRMASS AND WINDY CONDITIONS COMBINED WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE FIRE CONDITIONS...PLEASE CONTACT THE ALABAMA FORESTRY COMMISSION AT WWW.FORESTRY.ALABAMA.GOV. && $$ ALZ011>015-017>029-240000- /O.UPG.KBMX.FW.A.0004.140124T1700Z-140125T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KBMX.FW.W.0009.140124T1700Z-140125T0000Z/ MARION-LAMAR-FAYETTE-WINSTON-WALKER-BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN- CHEROKEE-CLEBURNE-PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA-JEFFERSON-SHELBY-ST. CLAIR- TALLADEGA-CLAY-RANDOLPH- 204 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY FOR ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * WINDS...WILL BE VARIABLE UP TO 5 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WILL DROP AS LOW AS 17 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...OF A DRY AIRMASS AND WINDY CONDITIONS COMBINED WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE FIRE CONDITIONS...PLEASE CONTACT THE ALABAMA FORESTRY COMMISSION AT WWW.FORESTRY.ALABAMA.GOV. && $$
2 follow-up statements
457 WWUS84 KBMX 232340 RFWBMX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 540 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 ...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA FRIDAY... ALZ011>015-017>050-241200- /O.CON.KBMX.FW.W.0009.140124T1700Z-140125T0000Z/ MARION-LAMAR-FAYETTE-WINSTON-WALKER-BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN- CHEROKEE-CLEBURNE-PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA-JEFFERSON-SHELBY-ST. CLAIR- TALLADEGA-CLAY-RANDOLPH-SUMTER-GREENE-HALE-PERRY-BIBB-CHILTON- COOSA-TALLAPOOSA-CHAMBERS-MARENGO-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE- MONTGOMERY-MACON-BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- 540 PM CST THU JAN 23 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY FOR ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY. * WINDS...WILL BE FROM THE NORTH UP TO 5 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WILL DROP AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...OF A DRY AIRMASS WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE FIRE CONDITIONS...PLEASE CONTACT THE ALABAMA FORESTRY COMMISSION AT WWW.FORESTRY.ALABAMA.GOV. && $$
430 WWUS84 KBMX 240926 RFWBMX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 326 AM CST FRI JAN 24 2014 ...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA TODAY... ALZ011>015-017>050-250000- /O.EXT.KBMX.FW.W.0009.140124T1600Z-140125T0000Z/ MARION-LAMAR-FAYETTE-WINSTON-WALKER-BLOUNT-ETOWAH-CALHOUN- CHEROKEE-CLEBURNE-PICKENS-TUSCALOOSA-JEFFERSON-SHELBY-ST. CLAIR- TALLADEGA-CLAY-RANDOLPH-SUMTER-GREENE-HALE-PERRY-BIBB-CHILTON- COOSA-TALLAPOOSA-CHAMBERS-MARENGO-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE- MONTGOMERY-MACON-BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- 326 AM CST FRI JAN 24 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...WILL BE FROM THE NORTH 5 TO 10 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WILL DROP AS LOW AS 14 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...OF A DRY AIRMASS WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE FIRE CONDITIONS...PLEASE CONTACT THE ALABAMA FORESTRY COMMISSION AT WWW.FORESTRY.ALABAMA.GOV. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 3:25 AM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 30 hr |
| Jan 23, 3:30 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 23, 3:30 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Chambers, Chilton and 15 more | 14 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.