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Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Melbourne, FL

February 8, 20084 counties in Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Feb 8, 2008, 12:13 PM EST for 4 counties in Florida. 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
Feb 8, 2008, 12:13 PM EST (17:13 UTC)
Expired
Feb 8, 2008, 6:00 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL

Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 2008-02-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 315 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2008-02-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
315 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 081713
RFWMLB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1213 PM EST FRI FEB 8 2008


FLZ041-044>046-141-144-082300-
/O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0007.080208T1713Z-080208T2300Z/
INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-COASTAL VOLUSIA-
SOUTHERN LAKE-
1213 PM EST FRI FEB 8 2008

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM.

DRY AIR CONTINUES TO SAG SOUTHWARD ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS OF EAST
CENTRAL FLORIDA. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE PLUMMETED BELOW 35%
IN AREAS WHICH HAVE CLEARED OUT...GENERALLY NEAR AND NORTH OF THE
INTERSTATE FOUR CORRIDOR.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS...
IN THIS CASE...LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...ARE EITHER
OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

$$


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.