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Red Flag Warning 19, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Nov 2, 2014, 1:56 PM CST for 10 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 4 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
- Nov 2, 2014, 1:56 PM CST (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 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
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 2109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
482 WWUS84 KMOB 021956 RFWMOB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 156 PM CST SUN NOV 2 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO PROLONGED PERIOD OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 24 PERCENT FOR FOUR OR MORE HOURS... .EXTREMELY DRY LOW TO MID LEVEL AIR HAS BEEN MIXING DOWN TO THE SURFACE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITY HAS ALREADY DROPPED BELOW 24 PERCENT...AND IS EXPECTED TO DROP INTO THE MID TEENS BY 4 PM. ALZ051>062-030000- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0019.141102T1956Z-141103T0000Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN- 156 PM CST SUN NOV 2 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO PROLONGED PERIOD OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 24 PERCENT FOR FOUR OR MORE HOURS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 051...052...053...054... 055...056...057...058...059...060...061 AND 062. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY: 15 TO 20 PERCENT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. * 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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
1 follow-up statement
504 WWUS84 KMOB 022025 RFWMOB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 225 PM CST SUN NOV 2 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO PROLONGED PERIOD OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 24 PERCENT FOR FOUR OR MORE HOURS... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO PROLONGED PERIOD OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 24 PERCENT FOR FOUR OR MORE HOURS... .EXTREMELY DRY LOW TO MID LEVEL AIR HAS BEEN MIXING DOWN TO THE SURFACE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. RELATIVE HUMIDITY HAS ALREADY DROPPED BELOW 24 PERCENT...AND IS EXPECTED TO DROP INTO THE MID TEENS BY 4 PM. DRY CONDITIONS CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY WITH A MARGINAL PERIOD OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 24 PERCENT EXPECTED AGAIN ON MONDAY. OTHER RED FLAG WARNING CRITERIA FOR FLORIDA AND MISSISSIPPI...INCLUDING WIND AND ERC VALUES...ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE MET. ALZ051>062-031230- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.A.0007.141103T1800Z-141104T0000Z/ /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0019.000000T0000Z-141103T0000Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN- 225 PM CST SUN NOV 2 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO PROLONGED PERIOD OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 24 PERCENT FOR FOUR OR MORE HOURS... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA DUE TO PROLONGED PERIOD OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 24 PERCENT FOR FOUR OR MORE HOURS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT MONDAY AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 051...052...053...054... 055...056...057...058...059...060...061 AND 062. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY: 15 TO 20 PERCENT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. * 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 CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2:25 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 15 hr |
| Nov 2, 2:35 PM CST | Frost Advisory | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 16 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.