Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2010
Red Flag Warning 39, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Apr 9, 2010, 12:52 PM EDT for Lake County, Orange County, Osceola County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 10, 2010, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 3 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
- Apr 9, 2010, 12:52 PM EDT (16:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 10, 2010, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2010, 4:23 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
292 WWUS82 KMLB 091652 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1252 PM EDT FRI APR 9 2010 FLZ044-045-053-144-101100- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0039.100410T1700Z-100410T2300Z/ NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-OSCEOLA-SOUTHERN LAKE- 1252 PM EDT FRI APR 9 2010 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM EDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM EDT SATURDAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN VERY FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRE ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. && $$ 67
2 follow-up statements
810 WWUS82 KMLB 100944 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 544 AM EDT SAT APR 10 2010 FLZ044-045-053-144-102300- /O.CON.KMLB.FW.W.0039.100410T1700Z-100410T2300Z/ NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-OSCEOLA-SOUTHERN LAKE- 544 AM EDT SAT APR 10 2010 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN VERY FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRE ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. && $$
256 WWUS82 KMLB 102023 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 423 PM EDT SAT APR 10 2010 FLZ044-045-053-144-102130- /O.CAN.KMLB.FW.W.0039.000000T0000Z-100410T2300Z/ NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-OSCEOLA-SOUTHERN LAKE- 423 PM EDT SAT APR 10 2010 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS ACROSS THE WARNING AREA FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED. $$ WEITLICH
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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.