Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this red flag warning at Nov 8, 2012, 10:57 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. 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
- Nov 8, 2012, 10:57 AM EST (15:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2012, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 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 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WWUS82 KMFL 081557 RFWMFL URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1057 AM EST THU NOV 8 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON FOR A COMBINATION OF WINDS AROUND 15 MPH AND LONG DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... FLZ067-068-071>074-168-172-173-082200- /O.NEW.KMFL.FW.W.0010.121108T1600Z-121108T2200Z/ INLAND PALM BEACH-METRO PALM BEACH-INLAND BROWARD-METRO BROWARD- INLAND MIAMI DADE-METRO MIAMI DADE-COASTAL PALM BEACH- COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE- 1057 AM EST THU NOV 8 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO A COMBINATION OF WINDS AROUND 15 MPH AND LONG DURATIONS OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 067...068...071...072... 073...074...168...172 AND 173. * WIND...12 TO 15 MPH * HUMIDITY...30-35 PERCENT * ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT (ERC)...21 TO 29 * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 4:06 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | MFL | 44 hr |
Nearby
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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.