Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 32, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 31, 2007, 11:01 AM EDT for Collier County, Florida. 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
- Mar 31, 2007, 11:01 AM EDT (15:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2007, 6:44 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 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 15:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 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 311501 RFWMFL RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1101 AM EDT SAT MAR 31 2007 FLZ063-066-069-070-010000- /O.NEW.KMFL.FW.W.0032.070331T1501Z-070401T0000Z/ GLADES-HENDRY-WESTERN COLLIER-EASTERN COLLIER- 1101 AM EDT SAT MAR 31 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR GLADES, HENDRY, AND COLLIER COUNTIES FOR RHS BELOW 35 PERCENT ALONG WITH 20 FOOT WINDS OF AROUND 15 MPH THIS AFERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THE RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR GLADES...HENDRY...AND COLLIER COUNTIES. RHS ARE EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW 35 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THESE AREAS. THESE LOW RHS COMBINED WITH 20 FOOT WINDS OF AROUND 15 MPH WILL RESULT IN RED FLAG CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT RHS COULD STAY BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR FOUR HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. THUS...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF EAST WINDS NEAR 15 MPH... LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ DG/BB
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS82 KMFL 311619 CCA RFWMFL RED FLAG WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1101 AM EDT SAT MAR 31 2007 FLZ063-066-069-070-010000- /O.NEW.KMFL.FW.W.0032.070331T1501Z-070401T0000Z/ GLADES-HENDRY-WESTERN COLLIER-EASTERN COLLIER- 1101 AM EDT SAT MAR 31 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR GLADES, HENDRY, AND COLLIER COUNTIES FOR RHS BELOW 35 PERCENT ALONG WITH 20 FOOT WINDS OF AROUND 15 MPH THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THE RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR GLADES...HENDRY...AND COLLIER COUNTIES. RHS ARE EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW 35 PERCENT THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THESE AREAS. THESE LOW RHS COMBINED WITH 20 FOOT WINDS OF AROUND 15 MPH WILL RESULT IN RED FLAG CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT RHS COULD STAY BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR FOUR HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. THUS...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF EAST WINDS NEAR 15 MPH... LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ DG/BB
000 WWUS82 KMFL 312244 RFWMFL RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 644 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING CANCELED FOR GLADES...HENDRY...WESTERN COLLIER AND EASTERN COLLIER... FLZ063-066-069-070-312345- /O.CAN.KMFL.FW.W.0032.000000T0000Z-070401T0000Z/ GLADES-HENDRY-WESTERN COLLIER-EASTERN COLLIER- 644 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CANCELED THE RED FLAG WARNING ISSUED EARLIER TODAY. THE TEMPERATURES ARE BEGINNING TO DECREASE THIS EVENING AND THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE WARNING AREAS ARE NOW ABOVE THE CRITICAL 35 PERCENT THRESHOLDS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 4:54 AM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 13 hr |
Nearby
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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.