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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 14, 20145 counties in Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 14, 2014, 11:53 AM CDT for 5 counties in Alabama. 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 14, 2014, 11:53 AM CDT (16:53 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2014-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2014-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

712 
WWUS82 KTAE 141653
RFWTAE

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1253 PM EDT FRI MAR 14 2014

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR
SOUTHEAST ALABAMA FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...

.DAYTIME WARMING AND A STUBBORNLY DRY AIRMASS HAVE COMBINED TO
DRIVE RH VALUES DOWN TO CRITICAL LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON. 

ALZ065>069-142300-
/O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0009.140314T1653Z-140314T2300Z/
COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON-
1153 AM CDT FRI MAR 14 2014

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

* HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES BELOW 25 PERCENT FOR 4 TO 6 HOURS
  THIS AFTERNOON.

* IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP MAY 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.

&&

$$

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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.