Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 8, 2007, 2:06 PM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 9, 2007, 6:17 AM EST. It was in force for 14 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 8, 2007, 2:06 PM EST (19:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2007, 6:17 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2007, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Lake County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS82 KMLB 081906 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 206 PM EST MON JAN 8 2007 ...COOLER AND MUCH DRIER AIR TUESDAY BEHIND A COLD FRONT... FLZ041-044>046-053-141-144-092300- /O.UPG.KMLB.FW.A.0001.070109T1700Z-070109T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0001.070109T1700Z-070109T2300Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-OSCEOLA- COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE- 206 PM EST MON JAN 8 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM EST TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 6 PM EST TUESDAY. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. MINIMUM RH VALUES IN THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S FOR SEVERAL HOURS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE WARNING AREA. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OR A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW... OR ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. $$ CRISTALDI
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS82 KMLB 091117 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 617 AM EST TUE JAN 9 2007 ...COOLER AND MUCH DRIER AIR TUESDAY BEHIND A COLD FRONT... FLZ047-054-058-147-092330- /O.EXB.KMLB.FW.W.0001.070109T1600Z-070110T0100Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-NORTHERN BREVARD- 617 AM EST TUE JAN 9 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EST THIS EVENING. MINIMUM RH VALUES IN THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE WARNING AREA FOR SEVERAL HOURS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OR A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW... OR ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. $$ FLZ041-044>046-053-141-144-092330- /O.EXT.KMLB.FW.W.0001.070109T1600Z-070110T0100Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-OSCEOLA- COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE- 617 AM EST TUE JAN 9 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EST THIS EVENING. MINIMUM RH VALUES IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE WARNING AREA FOR SEVERAL HOURS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OR A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW... OR ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 3:55 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | MLB | Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 10 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.