Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 19, 2008, 1:17 PM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 20, 2008, 4:31 AM EST. It was in force for 13 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 19, 2008, 1:17 PM EST (18:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 20, 2008, 4:31 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 20, 2008, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at Jan 19, 9:53 AM EST, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 9:53 AM EST, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 19, 6:02 AM EST, 7 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 602 AM EST SAT JAN 19 2008 FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-191500- LEVY-CITRUS-SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK- MANATEE-HARDEE-HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 602 AM EST SAT JAN 19 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ...DENSE FOG/SMOKE IMPACT... AREAS OF FOG HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO GENERALLY 1 TO 3 MILES. SOME DENSE PATCHES ARE REDUCING VISIBILITIES BELOW ONE HALF MILE MAINLY FROM THE TAMPA BAY AREA SOUTH THROUGH LEE COUNTY. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN...USE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS...AND MAINTAIN A SAFE FOLLOWING DISTANCE BETWEEN VEHICLES THROUGH 9 AM. ...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT AS A LOW PRESSURE AREA MOVES ACROSS NORTHERN FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND PUSHES A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS THE NORTH TODAY AND THEN ACROSS THE TAMPA BAY AREA TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS OF 40 MPH AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING POSSIBLE. BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. ...RIP CURRENT IMPACT... AS WINDS INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING AND BECOME WEST TO SOUTHWEST...CONDITIONS WILL BECOME ROUGH AND CAUSE A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT ALL AREA BEACHES TODAY. IF CAUGHT IN THE SEAWARD PULL OF A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MOVE DIRECTLY TOWARD SHORE. INSTEAD...MOVE SIDEWAYS ACROSS THE RIP CURRENT UNTIL THE PULL EASES. ANOTHER METHOD OF ESCAPE IS TO LET THE RIP CURRENT PULL YOU SEAWARD 50 TO 100 YARDS...WHERE THE FORCE WEAKENS. THEN...SWIM TOWARD THE BEACH AT AN ANGLE AWAY FROM THE CURRENT. ...WIND AND SEA IMPACT... WINDS WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE MORNING TO 20 TO 25 KNOTS ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS AS AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE APPROACHES AND MOVES ACROSS THE STATE THROUGH THIS EVENING. SEAS WILL INCREASE UP TO 9 FEET BY TONIGHT AS WINDS SHIFT FROM SOUTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON TO NORTHWEST THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA IN THE WAKE OF THE LOW. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WILL BE IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ...WIND AND SEA IMPACT... WINDS AND SEAS WILL REMAIN HIGH FOR SUNDAY THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ACROSS THE AREA BEHIND THE FRONT AND REMAINS IN PLACE THROUGH TUESDAY. SMALL CRAFT WILL NEED TO CONTINUE USING EXTREME CAUTION ON AREA WATERS OR POSTPONE TRIPS UNTIL CONDITIONS IMPROVE TUESDAY. ...FIRE WEATHER IMPACT... COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA BEHIND THE COLD FRONT FOR SUNDAY. AFTERNOON HUMIDITIES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR A FEW HOURS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND IN ADDITION...WINDS WILL BE 10 TO 20 MPH AND GUSTY...ENHANCING THE FIRE WEATHER DANGER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER AND SELF ACTIVATE IF NEEDED. COLSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 6:11 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Pinellas, Polk, Sumter | 22 hr |
| Jan 19, 6:28 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Pinellas, Polk | 3 hr |
| Jan 19, 2:56 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 64 min | |
| Jan 19, 3:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Levy | 55 min |
| Jan 19, 3:53 PM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | TBW | Pinellas | 5 hr |
| Jan 19, 4:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 60 min | |
| Jan 19, 4:58 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 62 min | |
| Jan 19, 5:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Pasco, Pinellas | 34 min |
| Jan 19, 5:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 29 min |
| Jan 19, 5:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pasco | 29 min |
| Jan 19, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Pasco | 51 min |
| Jan 19, 5:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hernando | 26 min |
| Jan 19, 5:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Pinellas | 18 min |
| Jan 19, 6:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hernando, Sumter | 28 min |
| Jan 19, 6:03 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 57 min | |
| Jan 19, 6:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Manatee | 53 min |
| Jan 19, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Hillsborough, Polk | 42 min |
| Jan 19, 6:54 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 96 min |
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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.