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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this red flag warning at Apr 9, 2016, 3:51 AM EDT for 5 counties in Florida; 16 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Apr 9, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT. 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
- Apr 9, 2016, 3:51 AM EDT (07:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 9, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
All 21 counties
Dixie County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:53 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 3029 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
324 WWUS82 KTAE 090751 RFWTAE URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 351 AM EDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA AND THE EASTERN BIG BEND OF FLORIDA... FLZ018-019-028-029-034-118-128-134-GAZ124>131-145>148-158>161- 100000- /O.NEW.KTAE.FW.W.0002.160409T1800Z-160410T0000Z/ INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-INLAND TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE-INLAND DIXIE- COASTAL JEFFERSON-COASTAL TAYLOR-COASTAL DIXIE-TERRELL-DOUGHERTY- LEE-WORTH-TURNER-TIFT-BEN HILL-IRWIN-MITCHELL-COLQUITT-COOK- BERRIEN-THOMAS-BROOKS-LOWNDES-LANIER- 351 AM EDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA AND THE EASTERN BIG BEND OF FLORIDA. * WIND...AROUND 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 20 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM VALUES BETWEEN 22 TO 25 PERCENT. * DISPERSION INDICES...85 TO 95. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP COULD 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. && $$ HARRIGAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 11:28 AM EDT | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Gulf | 15 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.