Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 4, 2012, 5:09 AM EST for 5 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 4, 2012, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 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 4, 2012, 5:09 AM EST (10:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 4, 2012, 11:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2012, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:12 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
305 WWUS82 KMLB 041009 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 509 AM EST WED JAN 4 2012 FLZ141-041115- /O.CAN.KMLB.FW.A.0003.120104T1600Z-120104T2300Z/ COASTAL VOLUSIA- 509 AM EST WED JAN 4 2012 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR COASTAL VOLUSIA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. $$ FLZ041-044>046-053-144-042300- /O.UPG.KMLB.FW.A.0003.120104T1600Z-120104T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0003.120104T1600Z-120104T2300Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-OSCEOLA- SOUTHERN LAKE- 509 AM EST WED JAN 4 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF THE INTERIOR... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA... INLAND VOLUSIA... NORTHERN LAKE... ORANGE... SEMINOLE... OSCEOLA... SOUTHERN LAKE. * WIND....WINDS GUSTS AROUND 10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON WEDNESDAY. * HUMIDITY...VALUES WILL FALL TO BETWEEN 20 AND 30 PERCENT FROM THE LATE MORNING AND DURING THE AFTERNOON WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN VERY FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRE ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL LIKELY OCCUR WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. && $$ WEITLICH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 3:58 AM EST | Freeze Watch | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Osceola, Volusia | 10 hr |
| Jan 4, 4:19 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | MLB | 6 hr | |
| Jan 4, 1:48 PM EST | Freeze Warning | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 18 hr |
| Jan 4, 4:38 PM EST | Frost Advisory | MLB | 15 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.