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Red Flag Warning 76, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at Jun 30, 2006, 1:29 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
- Jun 30, 2006, 1:29 PM EDT (17:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2006, 7:00 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 17:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 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
- 1043 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 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 301729 RFWTBW RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 129 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR LEVY...CITRUS...HERNANDO AND SUMTER COUNTIES FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY DURATIONS FOR 4 TO 6 HOURS... FLZ039-042-043-048-302300- /O.NEW.KTBW.FW.W.0076.060630T1729Z-060630T2300Z/ LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO- 129 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. A VERY DRY AIRMASS IS MOVING OVER NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL DROP INTO THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S AND THESE VALUES WILL CONTINUE UNTIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING. A RED FLAG WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN VERY FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRE ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL OCCUR WITHIN 24 HOURS. $$
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 Jun 30, 10:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 10:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 1010 AM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006 .DISCUSSION...STATIONARY FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE EAST COAST UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH IS CURRENTLY LOCATED ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL FLORIDA. SHOWERS ONGOING ALONG THE FRONT IN THE NORTHERN GULF IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE FRONT. FEW OFFSHORE SHOWERS FORMING NORTH OF THE TAMPA AREA ALSO ALONG THE FRONT... AS WELL AS AROUND THE SOUTHERN TIP OF FLORIDA. LOWER DEWPOINTS OVER NORTHERN FLORIDA WILL INHIBIT ANY CHANCE OF RAIN FOR TODAY. ALONG THE FRONT...HIGH DEWPOINTS, 2800 J/KG OF CAPE AT TBW AND 4700 J/KG AT MFL, PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES AT 1.7 AT TBW AND 1.8 AT MFL, AND THE AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE WILL LEAVE US WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. BEST CHANCES WILL BE IN THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CWA AND COASTAL AREAS...AS DRIER AIR IS IN PLACE OVER THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. WILL LEAVE LOW CHANCE POPS OVER NORTHERN CWA. MAIN THREAT FROM STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. BY 06Z MOST SHOWER ACTIVITY SHOULD BE OFFSHORE. CURRENT ZONE FORECASTS ARE ON TRACK...NO MORNING UPDATE NEEDED. && .MARINE...LIGHT WINDS WILL CONTINUE WITH NO HIGHLIGHTS EXPECTED. AN EASTERLY WIND FLOW WILL DEVELOP AS A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS TO THE NORTH. THIS MAY RESULT IN EVENING EASTERLY SURGES WITH WINDS INCREASING TO 10 TO 15 KNOTS AND SEAS BUILDING TO 3 FEET OFFSHORE. SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL PUSH OFFSHORE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AS AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE CONVERGENCE MOVES OFFSHORE. && .TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GULF WATERS...NONE. && SM/CP
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 4:48 AM EDT, 8 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 448 AM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-301500- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK- MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 448 AM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA AND WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE FROM EAST TO WEST TODAY...WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS OCCURRING LATE THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THE GULF COAST. A FEW STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...BUT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. FIRE WEATHER...PORTIONS OF THE NATURE COAST MAY SEE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES DROP TO LESS THAN 4O PERCENT FOR A FEW HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE INTERIOR EACH AFTERNOON THEN MOVE BACK TOWARD THE GULF COAST. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN STRONG BUSY WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME
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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.