Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Feb 8, 2007, 4:30 AM EST for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 8, 2007, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 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
- Feb 8, 2007, 4:30 AM EST (09:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 8, 2007, 11:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2007, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 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 09:28 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, 9.5 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
- 2630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 080930 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 430 AM EST THU FEB 8 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM TODAY ACROSS OSCEOLA AND OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES FOR LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... FLZ053-058-082300- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0008.070208T1600Z-070208T2300Z/ OSCEOLA-OKEECHOBEE- 430 AM EST THU FEB 8 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON FOR OSCEOLA AND OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES. DRY NORTHWEST WINDS COMBINED WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 70S THIS AFTERNOON WILL ALLOW AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO DROP TO BETWEEN 28 AND 34 PERCENT. DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY ARE EXPECTED FROM FOUR TO FIVE HOURS. WEST WINDS AT 5 TO 10 MPH EARLY WILL BECOME NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. 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. $$ 15
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS82 KMLB 082045 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 345 PM EST THU FEB 8 2007 ...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES EXPECTED AS FAR NORTH AS ORLANDO LATE THIS AFTERNOON... FLZ045-144-082300- /O.EXA.KMLB.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070208T2300Z/ ORANGE-SOUTHERN LAKE- 345 PM EST THU FEB 8 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. DRY NORTHWEST WINDS COMBINED WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 70S THIS AFTERNOON WILL ALLOW AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO DROP TO BETWEEN 28 AND 34 PERCENT. DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY ARE EXPECTED FROM FOUR TO FIVE HOURS. WEST WINDS AT 5 TO 10 MPH EARLY WILL BECOME NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OR A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW... OR ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. $$ FLZ053-058-082300- /O.CON.KMLB.FW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070208T2300Z/ OSCEOLA-OKEECHOBEE- 345 PM EST THU FEB 8 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. DRY NORTHWEST WINDS COMBINED WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 70S THIS AFTERNOON WILL ALLOW AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO DROP TO BETWEEN 28 AND 34 PERCENT. DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY ARE EXPECTED FROM FOUR TO FIVE HOURS. WEST WINDS AT 5 TO 10 MPH EARLY WILL BECOME NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. 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. $$
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.