Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 8, 2007, 3:21 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 8, 2007, 12:00 PM EST. 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
- Mar 8, 2007, 3:21 AM EST (08:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 8, 2007, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2007, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 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 08:27 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 KMLB 080821 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 321 AM EST THU MAR 8 2007 FLZ041-044>046-053-144-082300- /O.UPG.KMLB.FW.A.0016.070308T1700Z-070308T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0023.070308T1700Z-070308T2300Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-OSCEOLA- SOUTHERN LAKE- 321 AM EST THU MAR 8 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS UPGRADED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH TO A RED FLAG WARNING...AND IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICAL RH VALUES ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY WITH 4 TO 6 HOURS BELOW 35%. MIXING HEIGHTS WILL REACH ABOVE 5000 FEET BUT TRANSPORT WINDS WILL BE VERY LIGHT WITH LOW DISPERSION. 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. $$ FLZ058-082300- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0023.070308T1700Z-070308T2300Z/ OKEECHOBEE- 321 AM EST THU MAR 8 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. LONG DURATIONS OF CRITICAL RH VALUES ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY WITH AROUND 4 HOURS BELOW 35%. MIXING HEIGHTS WILL REACH ABOVE 5000 FEET BUT TRANSPORT WINDS WILL BE VERY LIGHT WITH LOW DISPERSION. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OR A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW... OR ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. $$ KELLY
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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.