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Red Flag Warning 49, NWS Melbourne, FL

November 28, 2008Okeechobee County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Nov 28, 2008, 11:46 AM EST for Okeechobee County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 28, 2008, 12:00 PM 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
Nov 28, 2008, 11:46 AM EST (16:46 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 28, 2008, 12:00 PM EST
Expired
Nov 28, 2008, 5:00 PM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL

County Okeechobee County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 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 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 12:00Z on 2008-11-28Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2008-11-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
1513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 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 281646
RFWMLB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1146 AM EST FRI NOV 28 2008

FLZ054-058-059-064-282200-
/O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0049.081128T1700Z-081128T2200Z/
INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-
1146 AM EST FRI NOV 28 2008

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. 

DRIER AIRMASS OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA IS
ALLOWING DEWPOINTS TO CRASH OVER INLAND AREAS WEST OF THE TREASURE
COAST. WITH TEMPERATURES RISING INTO THE MID TO UPPER 70S LATER
TODAY WILL SEE CRITICAL RH VALUES OCCUR OVER THE WARNING AREA FOR
4 TO 5 HOURS DURING THIS AFTERNOON.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. 

$$

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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.