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Red Flag Warning 48, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

April 22, 2010Polk County, Sumter County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at Apr 22, 2010, 5:14 AM EDT for Polk County, Sumter County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 22, 2010, 2:00 PM EDT. 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
Apr 22, 2010, 5:14 AM EDT (09:14 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 22, 2010, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired
Apr 22, 2010, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Counties Polk County, FL, Sumter County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:11 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 00:00Z on 2010-04-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 278 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 00:00Z on 2010-04-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
278 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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.