Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2011
Red Flag Warning 14, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 22, 2011, 3:32 AM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 22, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2011, 3:32 AM EDT (07:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 22, 2011, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2011, 1:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Broward County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:31 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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
006 WWUS82 KMFL 220732 RFWMFL URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 332 AM EDT TUE MAR 22 2011 FLZ071-230000- /O.NEW.KMFL.FW.W.0014.110322T1700Z-110323T0000Z/ INLAND BROWARD- 332 AM EDT TUE MAR 22 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR INLAND BROWARD COUNTY FOR 4 OR MORE HOURS OF BELOW 35 PERCENT RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT OF 36... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR INLAND BROWARD COUNTY. TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 80S WITH DEW POINTS AROUND 80 THIS AFTERNOON WILL ALLOW FOR THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO FALL BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR 4 HOURS OR MORE. AT THE SAME TIME...THE ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT OF 36 IS FORECAST FOR INLAND BROWARD COUNTY TODAY. THEREFORE...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR INLAND BROWARD COUNTY FOR THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ BAXTER
2 follow-up statements
817 WWUS82 KMFL 221416 CCA RFWMFL URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1013 AM EDT TUE MAR 22 2011 FLZ071-230000- /O.COR.KMFL.FW.W.0014.110322T1700Z-110323T0000Z/ INLAND BROWARD- 1013 AM EDT TUE MAR 22 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR INLAND BROWARD COUNTY FOR 4 OR MORE HOURS OF BELOW 35 PERCENT RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT OF 36... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR INLAND BROWARD COUNTY. TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 80S WITH DEW POINTS AROUND 50 THIS AFTERNOON WILL ALLOW FOR THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO FALL BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR 4 HOURS OR MORE. AT THE SAME TIME...THE ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT OF 36 IS FORECAST FOR INLAND BROWARD COUNTY TODAY. THEREFORE...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR INLAND BROWARD COUNTY FOR THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. && $$ BAXTER
375 WWUS82 KMFL 221755 RFWMFL URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 155 PM EDT TUE MAR 22 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING CANCELLED ... FLZ071-221900- /O.CAN.KMFL.FW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-110323T0000Z/ INLAND BROWARD- 155 PM EDT TUE MAR 22 2011 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR INLAND BROWARD COUNTY FOR 4 OR MORE HOURS OF BELOW 35 PERCENT RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT OF 36... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. THE RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS THE INTERIOR PORTIONS OF BROWARD COUNTY HAVE REMAINED ABOVE 35 PERCENT AND ARE NOW NOT EXPECTED TO GO BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR 4 OR MORE HOURS AS THE DEW POINTS HAVE REMAINED HIGHER THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED. THEREFORE...THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
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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.