Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 30, 2012, 4:53 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 30, 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 30, 2012, 4:53 AM EST (09:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 30, 2012, 11:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2012, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Polk County, FL, Sumter County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:57 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 2180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
574 WWUS82 KTBW 300953 RFWTBW URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 453 AM EST MON JAN 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT TODAY FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA... .HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO THE REGION WILL KEEP A VERY DRY AIRMASS ACROSS THE STATE TODAY. THIS COMBINED WITH GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PRODUCE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLZ062-065-301100- /O.CAN.KTBW.FW.A.0003.120130T1600Z-120130T2300Z/ CHARLOTTE-LEE- 453 AM EST MON JAN 30 2012 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR CHARLOTTE AND LEE COUNTIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. HUMIDITY VALUES ARE NOT EXPECTED TO DROP BELOW 35 PRECENT TODAY BUT GUSTY WINDS AROUND 15 MPH ARE STILL EXPECTED. $$ FLZ043-048>052-055>057-060-061-302300- /O.UPG.KTBW.FW.A.0003.120130T1600Z-120130T2300Z/ /O.NEW.KTBW.FW.W.0007.120130T1600Z-120130T2300Z/ SUMTER-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-POLK-MANATEE-HARDEE- HIGHLANDS-SARASOTA-DE SOTO- 453 AM EST MON JAN 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA...SUMTER...HERNANDO...PASCO...PINELLAS... HILLSBOROUGH...POLK...MANATEE...HARDEE...HIGHLANDS... SARASOTA...DE SOTO. * WIND...EAST-NORTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 20 MPH. * HUMIDITY...24 PERCENT NORTH TO AROUND 33 PERCENT SOUTH. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN VERY FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR THE SPREAD OF WILDFIRE ARE OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL OCCUR WITHIN 24 HOURS. && $$
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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.