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Red Flag Warning 51, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at May 21, 2008, 3:53 PM EDT for Sumter County, Florida. It was in force for 4 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
- May 21, 2008, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
County Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 704 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
Nearby
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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.