Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Oct 24, 2016, 3:59 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 24, 2016, 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
- Oct 24, 2016, 3:59 AM CDT (08:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 24, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2016, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:03 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 2394 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
130 WWUS84 KMOB 240859 RFWMOB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 359 AM CDT MON OCT 24 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND HIGH ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENTS... .A VERY DRY CONTINENTAL AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTHWARD OVER THE REGION DROPPING RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 27 PERCENT FOR FOUR OR MORE CONSECUTIVE HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. THIS EXTENDED PERIOD OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY COMBINED WITH ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENTS EXCEEDING CRITICAL THRESHOLDS PROMPTED THE ISSUANCE OF THE RED FLAG WARNING. FLZ201>206-241700- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0003.161024T1700Z-161024T2300Z/ ESCAMBIA INLAND-ESCAMBIA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA INLAND- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA INLAND-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 359 AM CDT MON OCT 24 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND HIGH ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENTS... * HUMIDITY...NEAR 20 PERCENT. * 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 STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
1 follow-up statement
330 WWUS84 KMOB 241729 RFWMOB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1229 PM CDT MON OCT 24 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND HIGH ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENTS... .A VERY DRY CONTINENTAL AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTHWARD OVER THE REGION DROPPING RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 27 PERCENT FOR FOUR OR MORE CONSECUTIVE HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. THIS EXTENDED PERIOD OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY COMBINED WITH ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENTS EXCEEDING CRITICAL THRESHOLDS PROMPTED THE ISSUANCE OF THE RED FLAG WARNING. FLZ201>206-242300- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-161024T2300Z/ ESCAMBIA INLAND-ESCAMBIA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA INLAND- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA INLAND-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 1229 PM CDT MON OCT 24 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO LONG DURATION OF CRITICALLY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND HIGH ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENTS... * HUMIDITY...NEAR 20 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
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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.