Alert archive / Alabama / Red Flag Warnings in 2015
Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this red flag warning at Feb 19, 2015, 9:58 PM CST for 15 counties in Alabama. It took effect at Feb 20, 2015, 12:00 PM CST. 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
- Feb 19, 2015, 9:58 PM CST (03:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 20, 2015, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2015, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
Counties Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 2471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
904 WWUS84 KBMX 200358 RFWBMX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 958 PM CST THU FEB 19 2015 ...DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHEAST CENTRAL ALABAMA FRIDAY... ALZ035>038-040>050-201200- /O.NEW.KBMX.FW.W.0009.150220T1600Z-150221T0000Z/ CHILTON-COOSA-TALLAPOOSA-CHAMBERS-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE- MONTGOMERY-MACON-BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- 958 PM CST THU FEB 19 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN QUADRANT OF CENTRAL ALABAMA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 6 PM CST FRIDAY. * WINDS...WILL BE FROM THE SOUTHEAST 5 TO 10 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WILL DROP AS LOW AS 16 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
823 WWUS84 KBMX 201151 RFWBMX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 551 AM CST FRI FEB 20 2015 ...DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHEAST CENTRAL ALABAMA TODAY... ALZ035>038-040>050-210000- /O.EXT.KBMX.FW.W.0009.150220T1800Z-150221T0000Z/ CHILTON-COOSA-TALLAPOOSA-CHAMBERS-DALLAS-AUTAUGA-LOWNDES-ELMORE- MONTGOMERY-MACON-BULLOCK-LEE-RUSSELL-PIKE-BARBOUR- 551 AM CST FRI FEB 20 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN QUADRANT OF CENTRAL ALABAMA... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...WILL BE FROM THE SOUTHEAST 5 TO 10 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WILL DROP AS LOW AS 18 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...A DRY AIRMASS WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE FIRE CONDITIONS...PLEASE CONTACT THE ALABAMA FORESTRY COMMISSION AT WWW.FORESTRY.ALABAMA.GOV. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 3:34 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 22 more | 23 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.