Alert archive / Alabama / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 15, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Mar 25, 2014, 3:19 PM CDT for 5 counties in Mississippi; 10 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Mar 26, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Mar 25, 2014, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 26, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 2251 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
257 WWUS84 KMOB 252019 RFWMOB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 319 PM CDT TUE MAR 25 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA DUE TO MARGINALLY LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A RED FLAG WARNING AND EXPANDED INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...AND MOST OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...DUE TO A LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .STRONG HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST WEDNESDAY...RESULTING IN CRITICALLY LOW DAYTIME HUMIDITY AND STRONG NORTHWESTERLY MIXED LAYER FLOW AREA-WIDE. ALZ051>062-261230- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0004.140326T1700Z-140327T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0015.140326T1700Z-140326T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-140325T2300Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN- 319 PM CDT TUE MAR 25 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE NORTHWEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO MARGINALLY LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 6 PM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO EXPECTED LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 6 PM CDT WEDNESDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 051...052...053...054... 055...056...057...058...059...060...061 AND 062. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY: 19 TO 24 PERCENT TODAY AND NEAR 20 PERCENT ON WEDNESDAY. * WINDS: NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 30 MPH...AND NORTH 5 TO 10 MPH WEDNESDAY * DISPERSIONS: 95 TO 105 TODAY...20S AND 30S WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS: ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THE RED FLAG WARNING TODAY MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...DRY FUELS AND STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH ON WEDNESDAY MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. && PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ MSZ067-075-076-078-079-261230- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0015.140326T1700Z-140326T2300Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-140325T2300Z/ WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 319 PM CDT TUE MAR 25 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI DUE TO MARGINALLY LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS... ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 6 PM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO EXPECTED LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 6 PM CDT WEDNESDAY. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 067...075...076...078 AND 079. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY: 19 TO 24 PERCENT. * WINDS: NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 30 MPH. * DISPERSIONS: 90 TO 95 TODAY...20S AND 30S WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS: ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS AND STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ ALZ063-064-FLZ001>006-252300- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-140325T2300Z/ LOWER MOBILE-LOWER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA- INLAND SANTA ROSA-COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA- COASTAL OKALOOSA- 319 PM CDT TUE MAR 25 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO MARGINALLY LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 063 AND 064. FIRE WEATHER ZONES 001...002...003...004...005 AND 006. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY: 19 TO 24 PERCENT. * WINDS: NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 30 MPH. * DISPERSIONS: 90 TO 95 TODAY...20S AND 30S WEDNESDAY. * 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. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND DRY FUELS AND STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
1 follow-up statement
411 WWUS84 KMOB 261028 RFWMOB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 528 AM CDT WED MAR 26 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND MUCH OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO MARGINALLY LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... .A STRONG AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE TENNESSEE RIVER VALLEY THIS MORNING...MOVES EAST DURING THE DAY. DRY WEATHER CONTINUES ALONG WITH GENERALLY GOOD DISPERSION. RISK OF FIRE REMAINS ELEVATED. MSZ067-075-076-078-079-261130- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.W.0015.140326T1700Z-140326T2300Z/ WAYNE-PERRY-GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 528 AM CDT WED MAR 26 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI DUE TO A FORECAST OF LIGHTER 20 FOOT WIND SPEED OF LESS THAN 15 MPH... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. ALTHOUGH SEVERAL HOURS OF HUMIDITY LESS THAN 25 PERCENT ARE FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON...A LOWER 20 FOOT WIND SPEED LESS THAN 15 MPH...DOES NOT MEET STATE CRITERIA TO MAINTAIN THE RED FLAG WARNING. $$ ALZ051>062-262300- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0015.140326T1700Z-140326T2300Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN- 528 AM CDT WED MAR 26 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND MUCH OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO MARGINALLY LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE MAINTAINS THE RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 051...052...053...054... 055...056...057...058...059...060...061 AND 062. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY: 17 TO 22 PERCENT. * WINDS: NORTHEAST 5 TO 10 MPH THIS MORNING BECOMING EAST SOUTHEAST IN THE LATE AFTERNOON. * DISPERSIONS: 40 TO 50. * IMPACTS: ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THE RED FLAG WARNING TODAY MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND DRY FUELS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 3:32 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 27 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:32 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 15 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Alabama, 2014Red Flag Warnings in Mississippi, 2014Every red flag warning in 2014
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.