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Red Flag Warning 69, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at May 22, 2006, 1:49 PM EDT for Sumter County, Florida. 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
- May 22, 2006, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2006, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
County Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 2127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS82 KTBW 221749 RFWTBW RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 149 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR INLAND PORTIONS OF THE NATURE COAST FOR 4 OR MORE HOURS OF HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... .HOT AND DRY CONDITIONS CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE NATURE COAST AS HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS CENTERED OVER THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PENINSULA. FLZ039-042-043-048-049-230000- /O.NEW.KTBW.FW.W.0069.060522T1749Z-060523T0000Z/ LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO- 149 PM EDT MON MAY 22 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING AWAY FROM COAST... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. FOR ANOTHER DAY...HOT AND DRY WEATHER CONTINUES ACROSS THE NORTH HALF OF THE FLORIDA PENINSULA. LATE AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL REACH THE MID 90S IN SOME AREAS WITH HUMIDITY FALLING TO BETWEEN 25 AND 30 PERCENT FOR 2 TO 3 HOURS...WITH 4 TO 6 HOURS OF HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT. LOCATIONS 10 MILES OR LESS FROM THE COAST IN CITRUS...HERNANDO...AND PASCO COUNTIES WILL ONLY HAVE ONE OR TWO HOURS OF CRITICAL LOW HUMIDITY VALUES. VERY DRY FUELS CONTINUE IN THESE AREAS WHERE RAINFALL HAS BEEN MOST SCARCE THIS SPRING...AND THE THREAT OF WILDFIRE SPREAD REMAINS QUITE HIGH. PLEASE ALERT ANY CREWS IN THE FIELD IMMEDIATELY. A RED FLAG WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN VERY FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRE ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL OCCUR WITHIN 24 HOURS. $$ BSG
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 22, 9:08 AM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 9:08 AM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 908 AM EDT MON MAY 22 2006 .MORNING UPDATE...OVER THE CONUS AN UPPER LOW WAS OFFSHORE THE PAC NW WITH TROUGHINESS EXTENDING SOUTH MOVING OVER CA. AN UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES TO CREEP EAST OVER THE PLAINS WHILE A SPRAWLING LOW SPINS OVER NEW ENGLAND THE CANADIAN MARITIME PROVINCES. CLOSER TO HOME... AN UPPER LOW OVER THE WEST GULF AND A RIDGE ALONG THE GREATER ANTILLES ARE STREAMING CLOUDS AND MOISTURE NORTHWARD OVER THE CENTRAL/EAST GULF AND THEN ACROSS MUCH OF FL. AT THE SURFACE A RIDGE AXIS REACHED FROM THE ATLANTIC OVER NORTH-CENTRAL FL TO THE NORTHERN GULF WATERS. CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS OK EXCEPT WILL BEEF UP THE CLOUD WORDING TODAY...ZONES OUT BY 10 AM. && .MARINE...WITH THE SURFACE RIDGE AXIS NEARLY BISECTING THE COASTAL WATERS EXPECT SOME VARIABILITY IN WIND DIRECTION BEFORE THE AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE KICKS IN WITH ONSHORE FLOW. SPEEDS AND SEAS 10KT/2FT OR LESS. && .FIRE WEATHER...CLOUDS AND MOISTURE STREAMING NORTH SHOULD PRECLUDE ANY FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS. ALTHOUGH NORTHERN INTERIOR AREA (MAINLY POLK AND SUMTER) COULD SEE RH 33% FOR 3 HR OR LESS. && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GULF WATERS...NONE. && RKR/09
Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 5:30 AM EDT, 8 hours 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 530 AM EDT MON MAY 22 2006 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-221330- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK- MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 530 AM EDT MON MAY 22 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AND WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED SOUTH OF THE TAMPA BAY AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT AS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES BRING TROPICAL MOISTURE AND ENERGY OVER THE AREA. THE MAIN HAZARDS EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS ARE OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. FOR INLAND LOCATIONS NORTH OF THE TAMPA BAY AREA...AFTERNOON HUMIDITIES WILL FALL BELOW CRITICAL VALUES FOR ONE TO THREE HOURS CAUSING AN INCREASED RISK FOR THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN FOR TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AS UPPER LEVEL ENERGY AND DEEP MOISTURE REMAIN IN PLACE OVER THE AREA. OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN HAZARDS WITH THE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
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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.