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Red Flag Warning 39, NWS Miami, FL

November 9, 2008Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this red flag warning at Nov 9, 2008, 12:58 PM EST for Collier County, Florida. 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
Nov 9, 2008, 12:58 PM EST (17:58 UTC)
Expired
Nov 9, 2008, 7:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2008-11-09Temperature 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2008-11-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS82 KMFL 091758
RFWMFL

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1258 PM EST SUN NOV 9 2008

...RED FLAG WARNING FOR NORTHWEST AREAS FOR RELATIVE HUMIDITIES
BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR 4 OR MORE HOURS...

FLZ063-066-069-070-100000-
/O.NEW.KMFL.FW.W.0039.081109T1800Z-081110T0000Z/
GLADES-HENDRY-COASTAL COLLIER-INLAND COLLIER-
1258 PM EST SUN NOV 9 2008

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING. 

DRY AIR FROM ALOFT IS WORKING DOWNWARD AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE
FALLING AND MOST NORTHWEST AREAS SHOULD SEE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES
BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR 4 OR MORE HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. MAIN AREAS
AFFECTED WILL BE GLADES, HENDRY AND THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF
COLLIER COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF
LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE
FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL.

&&

$$

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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.