Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 9, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Feb 14, 2007, 3:36 AM EST for Orange County, Seminole County, Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 14, 2007, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 3 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 14, 2007, 3:36 AM EST (08:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 14, 2007, 3:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2007, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS82 KMLB 140836 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 336 AM EST WED FEB 14 2007 ...INCREASED FIRE THREAT OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS... FLZ041-045-046-141-147-151000- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0009.070214T2000Z-070214T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.A.0008.070216T1600Z-070217T0000Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-COASTAL VOLUSIA-NORTHERN BREVARD- 336 AM EST WED FEB 14 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA TODAY. DRIER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON BEHIND THE FRONT. THE DRY CONDITIONS COMBINED WITH WESTERLY WINDS NEAR 15 MPH WILL RESULT IN AN INCREASED FIRE THREAT LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AN EVEN DRIER AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TO SETTLE ACROSS THE AREA FRIDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ACROSS THE NORTHERN GULF. LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY 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. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS...LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OR A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...ARE POSSIBLE BETWEEN 24 AND 72 HOURS. $$ FLZ044-047-053-054-058-144-151000- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.A.0008.070216T1600Z-070217T0000Z/ NORTHERN LAKE-SOUTHERN BREVARD-OSCEOLA-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE- SOUTHERN LAKE- 336 AM EST WED FEB 14 2007 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A FIRE WEATHER WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING. A DRY AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TO SETTLE ACROSS THE AREA FRIDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ACROSS THE NORTHERN GULF. LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS...LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OR A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND STRONG WINDS...ARE POSSIBLE BETWEEN 24 AND 72 HOURS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 3:04 AM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | MLB | Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 15 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:36 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 34 hr |
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.