Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 25, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 13, 2007, 4:01 AM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 13, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT. 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 13, 2007, 4:01 AM EDT (08:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 13, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2007, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Lake County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 130801 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 401 AM EDT TUE MAR 13 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM FOR LAKE... WESTERN ORANGE...OSCEOLA AND OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES FOR LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... FLZ044-045-053-058-144-132245- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0025.070313T1700Z-070313T2300Z/ NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-OSCEOLA-OKEECHOBEE-SOUTHERN LAKE- 401 AM EDT TUE MAR 13 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE NORTHEAST OF THE AREA AND A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA. MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE ARE EXPECTED TO DIP BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR 3 TO 5 HOUR DURATIONS ACROSS WELL INTERIOR SECTIONS FROM OKEECHOBEE AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES TO WESTERN ORANGE AND LAKE COUNTIES. SOUTHEAST WINDS TO 10 MPH WILL BECOME EAST SOUTHEAST WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE EAST COAST SEA BREEZE LATE TODAY. 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. $$ MRV
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.