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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 1, 2010, 6:59 PM EST for 5 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 2, 2010, 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
- Jan 1, 2010, 6:59 PM EST (23:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 2, 2010, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2010, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 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 1, 2:16 PM EST, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 2:16 PM EST, 4 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 8:35 PM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk, Sumter | 22 hr |
| Dec 31, 9:13 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | TBW | 46 hr | |
| Jan 1, 3:44 AM EST | Freeze Watch | TBW | 10 hr | |
| Jan 1, 3:44 AM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Pinellas, Polk, Sumter | 17 hr |
| Jan 1, 3:49 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Pinellas, Polk, Sumter | 29 hr |
| Jan 1, 11:12 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 33 min | |
| Jan 1, 11:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Lee | 39 min |
| Jan 1, 1:53 PM EST | Freeze Watch | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk | 14 hr |
| Jan 1, 1:53 PM EST | Freeze Warning | TBW | 19 hr | |
| Jan 1, 1:53 PM EST | Hard Freeze Watch | TBW | Sumter | 14 hr |
| Jan 1, 6:59 PM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TBW | DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk, Sumter | 19 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2010Every red flag warning in 2010
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.