Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 56, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at May 2, 2006, 4:00 AM EDT for 5 counties in Florida. It took effect at May 3, 2006, 12:00 PM EDT. 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
- May 2, 2006, 4:00 AM EDT (08:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 3, 2006, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 3, 2006, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 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 08:04 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at May 1, 2:20 PM EDT, 13 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 2:20 PM EDT, 13 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 4:36 AM EDT, 23 hours 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 436 AM EDT MON MAY 1 2006 FLZ039-042-043-048-011445- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO- 436 AM EDT MON MAY 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A DRY AIRMASS MOVING IN TODAY WILL ALLOW HUMIDITIES TO FALL BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR FOUR OR MORE HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS AND VISITORS IN THE AREA SHOULD BE EXTRA CAREFUL WITH ANY OUTDOOR OPEN FLAMES OR BARBECUES TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED RISK FOR THE SPREAD OF WILD FIRES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS DRY HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE STATE AND ALLOWS RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO FALL BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS FOR EXTENDED DURATIONS EACH AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FLZ049>052-055>057-060>062-065-011445- PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK-MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS- SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 436 AM EDT MON MAY 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AND WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT DRY AIR GRADUALLY MOVING IN FROM THE NORTH TODAY WILL ALLOW HUMIDITIES TO BRIEFLY FALL BELOW 35 PERCENT OVER PARTS OF INTERIOR WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS AND VISITORS IN THE AREA SHOULD BE EXTRA CAREFUL WITH ANY OUTDOOR OPEN FLAMES OR BARBECUES TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED RISK FOR THE SPREAD OF WILD FIRES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS DRY HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE STATE AND ALLOWS RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO FALL BELOW CRITICAL LEVELS FOR EXTENDED DURATIONS EACH AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:07 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk, Sumter | 23 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.