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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL

January 3, 2008Lake County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 3, 2008, 5:31 AM EST for Lake County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 3, 2008, 11:00 AM EST. 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
Jan 3, 2008, 5:31 AM EST (10:31 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 3, 2008, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 3, 2008, 4:00 PM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL

County Lake County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:29 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2008-01-03Temperature 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, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2008-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -51 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-202 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 031031
RFWMLB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
531 AM EST THU JAN 3 2008

FLZ044-144-032100-
/O.UPG.KMLB.FW.A.0001.080103T1600Z-080103T2100Z/
/O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0002.080103T1600Z-080103T2100Z/
NORTHERN LAKE-SOUTHERN LAKE-
531 AM EST THU JAN 3 2008

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM EST
THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS UPGRADED THE FIRE
WEATHER WATCH TO A RED FLAG WARNING...AND IS IN EFFECT FROM 11
AM THIS MORNING TO 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. 

DEVELOPING ONSHORE FLOW WILL MODIFY THE VERY DRY AIRMASS BUT
PORTIONS OF LAKE COUNTY WILL SEE AROUND 4 HOURS OF CRITICAL RH.
IN ADDITION...NORTH TO NORTHEAST 20 FT WINDS WILL APPROACH 15 MPH.

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
Jan 3, 10:03 AM ESTLake Wind AdvisoryMLBOrange, Volusia7 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2008Every red flag warning in 2008

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.