Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 25, 2012, 4:15 AM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 25, 2012, 1:00 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
- Mar 25, 2012, 4:15 AM EDT (08:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 25, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
374 WWUS82 KMLB 250815 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 415 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2012 FLZ041-044>046-141-144-252300- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0008.120325T1700Z-120325T2300Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-COASTAL VOLUSIA- SOUTHERN LAKE- 415 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR A PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA... INLAND VOLUSIA... NORTHERN LAKE... ORANGE... SEMINOLE... COASTAL VOLUSIA... SOUTHERN LAKE. * WIND...WINDS NEAR 15 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL HIGHER GUSTS THIS AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY...HUMIDITY WILL FALL TO THE MID 30S BY MID AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. * 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. && $$ JP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Okeechobee | 47 min |
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.