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Red Flag Warning 51, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

April 27, 20065 counties in Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at Apr 27, 2006, 1:23 PM EDT for 5 counties in Florida. It took effect at Apr 28, 2006, 5:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 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 27, 2006, 1:23 PM EDT (17:23 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 28, 2006, 5:00 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 28, 2006, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Counties DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sumter County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 64 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1552 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 1:23 PM EDTFire Weather WatchTBWDeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk, Sumter40 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2006Every red flag warning in 2006

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.