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Red Flag Warning 28, NWS Miami, FL

March 25, 2007Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 25, 2007, 4:19 AM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 25, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 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: Mar 25, 2007, 4:19 AM EDT (08:19 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 25, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT
Expired: Mar 25, 2007, 6:19 PM EDT
In force: 5 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 08:20 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS82 KMFL 250819
RFWMFL

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
419 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2007

FLZ063-066-069-070-251630-
/O.UPG.KMFL.FW.A.0017.070325T1700Z-070325T2300Z/
/O.NEW.KMFL.FW.W.0028.070325T1700Z-070325T2300Z/
GLADES-HENDRY-WESTERN COLLIER-EASTERN COLLIER-
419 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM
EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT
THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

TEMPERATURES OVER THE WESTERN INTERIOR AND WEST COAST METRO AREAS
ARE EXPECTED TO WARM INTO THE MID TO UPPER 80S WITH DEW POINTS IN
THE MID 50S TO LOW 60S THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR THE
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO FALL INTO THE LOWER 30S. THE LOW RELATIVE
HUMIDITIES SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING BEFORE
INCREASING ABOVE THE 35 PERCENT CRITICAL VALUES AS THE
TEMPERATURES COOL INTO UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S. 20 FEET WIND SPEEDS
ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 15 KNOTS IN THE AFTERNOON. SO THE
RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR GLADES... HENDRY...AND COLLIER
COUNTIES UNTIL 7 PM EDT.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG
WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WARM TEMPERATURES...AND VERY HIGH
BDI VALUES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

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.

$$

TINGLER

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS82 KMFL 252219
RFWMFL

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
619 PM EDT SUN MAR 25 2007

FLZ063-066-069-070-261200-
/O.CAN.KMFL.FW.W.0028.000000T0000Z-070325T2300Z/
/O.NEW.KMFL.FW.A.0018.070326T1600Z-070327T0000Z/
GLADES-HENDRY-WESTERN COLLIER-EASTERN COLLIER-
619 PM EDT SUN MAR 25 2007

...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
MONDAY EVENING...
...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER
WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY
EVENING FOR WESTERN INTERIOR AND WEST COAST METRO AREAS OF SOUTH
FLORIDA.

THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THIS EVENING FOR
WESTERN INTERIOR AND WEST COAST METRO AREAS OF SOUTH FLORIDA.


THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES EARLY THIS EVENING HAS RISEN ABOVE THE 35
PERCENT VALUE. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED
FOR THIS EVENING FOR THE WESTERN INTERIOR AND WEST COAST METRO
AREAS OF SOUTH FLORIDA.

TEMPERATURES OVER THE WESTERN INTERIOR AND WEST COAST METRO AREAS
ARE EXPECTED TO WARM INTO THE MID TO UPPER 80S WITH DEW POINTS IN
THE MID 50S MONDAY AFTERNOON. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR THE RELATIVE
HUMIDITIES TO FALL INTO THE LOWER 30S. THE 20 FEET WIND SPEEDS
SHOULD ALSO EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. SO A
FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR GLADES...HENDRY...AND
COLLIER COUNTIES FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY SUNDAY EVENING.

A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS AND POSSIBLE RED FLAG WARNINGS.

$$

BAXTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 6:19 PM EDT	Fire Weather Watch	MFL	Collier	10 hr

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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.