Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 15, 2008, 4:16 AM EST for Collier County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 15, 2008, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 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
- Jan 15, 2008, 4:16 AM EST (09:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 15, 2008, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2008, 6:41 PM EST
- In force
- 9 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 09:16 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 00:00Z, 9.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 KMFL 150916 RFWMFL RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 416 AM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 FLZ063-066-069-070-160000- /O.UPG.KMFL.FW.A.0003.080115T1600Z-080115T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMFL.FW.W.0004.080115T1500Z-080116T0000Z/ GLADES-HENDRY-COASTAL COLLIER-INLAND COLLIER- 416 AM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM EST THIS EVENING FOR RHS BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR FOUR HOURS OR MORE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS UPGRADED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH TO A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GLADES...HENDRY...AND COLLIER COUNTIES. THE RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM EST THIS EVENING. NORTH WINDS TODAY WILL CONTINUE TO BRING DRY AIR INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTH. THIS...COMBINED WITH DAYTIME MIXING OF DRIER AIR DOWN TO THE SURFACE...WILL RESULT IN MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR AT LEAST 4 HOURS. IN FACT...RHS ARE EXPECTED TO FALL TO AROUND 20 PERCENT TOWARDS THE GULF COAST TO THE 30S ELSEWHERE. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ DG/BB
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS82 KMFL 151911 RFWMFL RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 211 PM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 FLZ069-070-152015- /O.CAN.KMFL.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080116T0000Z/ COASTAL COLLIER-INLAND COLLIER- 211 PM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CANCELED THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR COLLIER COUNTY. DEW POINTS HAVE RISEN ACROSS MOST OF COLLIER COUNTY EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON AND THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE RISEN ABOVE CRITICAL RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OF 35 PERCENT. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. $$ FLZ063-066-160000- /O.CON.KMFL.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080116T0000Z/ GLADES-HENDRY- 211 PM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING FOR GLADES AND HENDRY COUNTIES. NORTH WINDS TODAY WILL CONTINUE TO BRING DRY AIR INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTH. THIS...COMBINED WITH DAYTIME MIXING OF DRIER AIR DOWN TO THE SURFACE...WILL RESULT IN MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITIES FALLING BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR AT LEAST 4 HOURS ACROSS PORTIONS OF GLADES AND HENDRY COUNTIES. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
000 WWUS82 KMFL 152341 RFWMFL RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 641 PM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING CANCELED FOR GLADES AND HENDRY COUNTIES... FLZ063-066-160045- /O.CAN.KMFL.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080116T0000Z/ GLADES-HENDRY- 641 PM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... RELATIVE HUMIDITIES CONTINUE TO CLIMB WELL ABOVE 35% AS TEMPERATURES FALL, THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR GLADES AND HENDRY COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELED. $$
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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.