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Red Flag Warning 89, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

December 26, 20105 counties in Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at Dec 26, 2010, 12:46 PM EST for 5 counties in Florida. It took effect at Dec 27, 2010, 12:00 PM EST. 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
Dec 26, 2010, 12:46 PM EST (17:46 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 27, 2010, 12:00 PM EST
Expired
Dec 27, 2010, 6:00 PM EST
In force
6 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 17:50 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 12:00Z, 5.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2010-12-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2010-12-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 26, 4:55 AM ESTHigh Surf AdvisoryTBWPinellas38 hr
Dec 26, 5:14 AM ESTFreeze WatchTBWDeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk, Sumter24 hr
Dec 26, 5:14 AM ESTFreeze WarningTBWDeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk28 hr
Dec 26, 5:14 AM ESTHard Freeze WarningTBWSumter28 hr
Dec 26, 5:30 AM ESTFire Weather WatchTBWDeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk, Sumter7 hr
Dec 26, 5:30 AM ESTRed Flag WarningTBWPolk, Sumter6 hr
Dec 26, 6:35 AM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryTBWDeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Pinellas, Polk, Sumter26 hr
Dec 26, 12:43 PM ESTHard Freeze WatchTBWDeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Polk, Sumter24 hr
Dec 26, 12:46 PM ESTFire Weather WatchTBWDeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Pinellas, Polk, Sumter16 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.