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Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 8, 20076 counties in Florida

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.

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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 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2007-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2007-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.