Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 15, 2008, 4:18 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 15, 2008, 12:00 PM EST. 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
- Jan 15, 2008, 4:18 AM EST (09:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 15, 2008, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2008, 6:00 PM EST
- 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 09:22 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, 9.3 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
- 1583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 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 150918 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 418 AM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LAKE...COASTAL VOLUSIA... INLAND VOLUSIA...SEMINOLE...ORANGE...OSCEOLA AND OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES FROM NOON TO 6 PM TODAY FOR LONG DURATIONS OF RH BELOW 35 PERCENT... FLZ041-044>046-053-058-144-152300- /O.UPG.KMLB.FW.A.0003.080115T1600Z-080115T2200Z/ /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0004.080115T1700Z-080115T2300Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-OSCEOLA-OKEECHOBEE- SOUTHERN LAKE- 418 AM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. LITTLE CHANGE IN THE DRY AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TODAY AS NORTHWEST TO NORTH FLOW WILL CONTINUE. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... 4 OR MORE HOURS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. $$ FLZ141-152300- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0004.080115T1700Z-080115T2300Z/ COASTAL VOLUSIA- 418 AM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. LITTLE CHANGE IN THE DRY AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TODAY AS NORTHWEST TO NORTH FLOW WILL CONTINUE. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... 4 OR MORE HOURS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS82 KMLB 151716 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1216 PM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LAKE...COASTAL VOLUSIA... INLAND VOLUSIA...SEMINOLE...ORANGE...OSCEOLA AND OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES FROM NOON TO 6 PM TODAY FOR LONG DURATIONS OF RH BELOW 35 PERCENT... FLZ047-054-147-152300- /O.EXA.KMLB.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080115T2300Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-NORTHERN BREVARD- 1216 PM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS EXTENDED THE RED FLAG WARNING INTO BREVARD AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY. THE WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. LITTLE CHANGE IN THE DRY AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TODAY AS NORTHWEST TO NORTH FLOW WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... 4 OR MORE HOURS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. $$ FLZ041-044>046-053-058-141-144-152300- /O.CON.KMLB.FW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080115T2300Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-OSCEOLA-OKEECHOBEE- COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE- 1216 PM EST TUE JAN 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... LITTLE CHANGE IN THE DRY AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TODAY AS NORTHWEST TO NORTH FLOW WILL CONTINUE. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... 4 OR MORE HOURS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR. $$ CRISTALDI
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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.