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Red Flag Warning 53, NWS Melbourne, FL

November 3, 20075 counties in Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Nov 3, 2007, 1:02 PM EDT for 5 counties in Florida. It was in force for 5 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
Nov 3, 2007, 1:02 PM EDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired
Nov 3, 2007, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL

Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-11-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-11-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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 031702
RFWMLB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
102 PM EDT SAT NOV 3 2007

FLZ041-044>046-053-141-144-040515-
/O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0053.071103T1702Z-071103T2200Z/
/O.CON.KMLB.FW.A.0039.071104T1700Z-071104T2200Z/
INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-OSCEOLA-
COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE-
102 PM EDT SAT NOV 3 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT SUNDAY AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. A
FIRE WEATHER WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT SUNDAY AFTERNOON. 

NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE BROUGHT THE FIRST REAL SHOT OF DRY
CONTINENTAL AIR INTO FLORIDA THIS SEASON. COMBINED WITH NEAR
NORMAL TEMPERATURES...THIS DRY AIR WILL PRODUCE SEVERAL HOURS OF
RH VALUES BELOW 35% THIS AFTERNOON. THE GUSTY WINDS WILL SUBSIDE
WITH SUSTAINED WINDS GENERALLY 10 TO 14 MPH.

LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY ARE EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN
SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS DRY NORTHWEST FLOW CONTINUES OVER THE 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.

$$

KELLY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 3, 4:53 AM EDTFire Weather WatchMLBLake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia24 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2007Every red flag warning in 2007

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.