Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 39, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Oct 29, 2008, 4:47 AM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Oct 29, 2008, 12:00 PM EDT. 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
- Oct 29, 2008, 4:47 AM EDT (08:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 29, 2008, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2008, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Lake County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 2219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 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 290847 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 447 AM EDT WED OCT 29 2008 ...A VERY DRY AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA TODAY RESULTING IN A LONG DURATION OF CRITICAL RELATIVE HUMIDITY ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA... FLZ041-044>046-053-141-144-292200- /O.UPG.KMLB.FW.A.0035.081029T1600Z-081029T2200Z/ /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0039.081029T1600Z-081029T2200Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-OSCEOLA- COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE- 447 AM EDT WED OCT 29 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. AN EXTREMELY DRY AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE TODAY...HOWEVER NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE MUCH LIGHTER THAN ON TUESDAY. A LONG DURATION OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 25 TO 30 PERCENT IS LIKELY. DRY AIR WILL LINGER ACROSS NORTHERN INTERIOR SECTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA TOMORROW AFTERNOON WITH A SHORT DURATION OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY NEAR 35 PERCENT POSSIBLE. 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 A HIGH WILDFIRE THREAT. $$ FLZ047-058-147-292200- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0039.081029T1600Z-081029T2200Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-OKEECHOBEE-NORTHERN BREVARD- 447 AM EDT WED OCT 29 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. A DRY AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE TODAY...HOWEVER NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE MUCH LIGHTER THAN ON TUESDAY. A LONG DURATION OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY OF 30 TO 35 PERCENT EXPECTED TODAY...EXCEPT ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST WHERE SOME MOISTURE RECOVERY MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON...RESULTING IN SEVERAL HOURS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY NEAR 35 PERCENT. HIGHER RELATIVE HUMIDITY LIKELY TOMORROW AS WINDS BECOME ONSHORE. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE A HIGH WILDFIRE THREAT. $$
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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.