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Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Nov 22, 2016, 2:52 AM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 22, 2016, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 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 22, 2016, 2:52 AM CST (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 22, 2016, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 22, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 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 08:51 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 00:00Z, 8.9 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
- 3667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
034 WWUS84 KMOB 220852 RFWMOB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 252 AM CST TUE NOV 22 2016 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO A LONG DURATION OF LOW HUMIDITY VALUES AND POTENTIALLY HIGH ERC COMPONENTS... .RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 28 PERCENT...WITH MINIMUMS AROUND 15 TO 20 PERCENT...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA. WHILE MIXED LAYER WINDS REMAIN LIGHT...THESE HUMIDITIES COMBINED WITH HIGH ERC VALUES HAVE WARRANTED THE ISSUANCE OF A RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON. FLZ201>206-221800- /O.UPG.KMOB.FW.A.0006.161122T1600Z-161123T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0009.161122T1600Z-161123T0000Z/ ESCAMBIA INLAND-ESCAMBIA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA INLAND- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA INLAND-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 252 AM CST TUE NOV 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND HIGH ERC VALUES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 201...202...203...204... 205 AND 206. * WIND...EAST 5 TO 10 MPH. * HUMIDITY...BELOW 28 PERCENT...WITH MINIMUM VALUES AROUND 15 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
805 WWUS84 KMOB 222116 RFWMOB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 316 PM CST TUE NOV 22 2016 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO A LONG DURATION OF LOW HUMIDITY VALUES AND POTENTIALLY HIGH ERC COMPONENTS... .RELATIVE HUMIDITIES BELOW 28 PERCENT...WITH MINIMUMS AROUND 15 TO 20 PERCENT...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA. WHILE MIXED LAYER WINDS REMAIN LIGHT...THESE HUMIDITIES COMBINED WITH HIGH ERC VALUES HAVE WARRANTED THE ISSUANCE OF A RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON. FLZ201>206-230000- /O.CON.KMOB.FW.W.0009.000000T0000Z-161123T0000Z/ ESCAMBIA INLAND-ESCAMBIA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA INLAND- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA INLAND-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 316 PM CST TUE NOV 22 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND HIGH ERC VALUES... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 201...202...203...204... 205 AND 206. * WIND...EAST 5 TO 10 MPH. * HUMIDITY...BELOW 28 PERCENT...WITH MINIMUM VALUES AROUND15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$
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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.