Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 9, 2007, 3:18 AM EST for Collier County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 9, 2007, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 7 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
- Jan 9, 2007, 3:18 AM EST (08:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2007, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2007, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:19 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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 KMFL 090818 RFWMFL RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 318 AM EST TUE JAN 9 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR GLADES, HENDRY, AND COLLIER COUNTIES... .HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP BELOW 35 PERCENT RESULTING IN DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FROM MID DAY TUESDAY UNTIL TUESDAY EVENING. FLZ063-066-070-092030- /O.UPG.KMFL.FW.A.0001.070109T1800Z-070110T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMFL.FW.W.0001.070109T1800Z-070110T0100Z/ GLADES-HENDRY-EASTERN COLLIER- 318 AM EST TUE JAN 9 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EST THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION DRY AIR WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE DOWN THE FLORIDA PENINSULA. THIS DRY AIR AT THE SURFACE ALONG WITH MIXING OF DRIER AIR ALOFT TO THE SURFACE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS WILL RESULT IN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF LESS THAN 35 PERCENT FOR 7 TO 8 HOURS FOR HENDRY AND GLADES COUNTIES AND NEAR 5 HOURS FOR COLLIER COUNTY. AFTER SUNSET HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO REBOUND. 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 WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ FLZ069-092030- /O.NEW.KMFL.FW.W.0001.070109T1800Z-070110T0100Z/ WESTERN COLLIER- 318 AM EST TUE JAN 9 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EST THIS EVENING. AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION DRY AIR WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE DOWN THE FLORIDA PENINSULA. THIS DRY AIR AT THE SURFACE ALONG WITH MIXING OF DRIER AIR ALOFT TO THE SURFACE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS WILL RESULT IN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF LESS THAN 35 PERCENT FOR 7 TO 8 HOURS FOR HENDRY AND GLADES COUNTIES AND NEAR 5 HOURS FOR COLLIER COUNTY. AFTER SUNSET HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO REBOUND. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS... LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS82 KMFL 091957 RFWMFL RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 257 PM EST TUE JAN 9 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR GLADES...HENDRY... AND COLLIER COUNTIES... .HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP BELOW 35 PERCENT RESULTING IN DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS UNTIL THIS EVENING. FLZ063-066-069-070-100100- /O.CON.KMFL.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070110T0100Z/ GLADES-HENDRY-WESTERN COLLIER-EASTERN COLLIER- 257 PM EST TUE JAN 9 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS EVENING. AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION DRY AIR WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE DOWN THE FLORIDA PENINSULA. THIS DRY AIR AT THE SURFACE ALONG WITH MIXING OF DRIER AIR ALOFT TO THE SURFACE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS WILL RESULT IN RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF LESS THAN 35 PERCENT FOR AT LEAST 4 HOURS FOR HENDRY...GLADES AND COLLIER COUNTIES. HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO REBOUND THIS EVENING. 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 WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
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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.