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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL

March 26, 2014Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 26, 2014, 12:55 PM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 5 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 26, 2014, 12:55 PM EDT (16:55 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2014, 6:19 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2014-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2014-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -88 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1905 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

231 
WWUS82 KMFL 261655
RFWMFL

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1255 PM EDT WED MAR 26 2014

FLZ069-070-262300-
/O.NEW.KMFL.FW.W.0002.140326T1655Z-140326T2300Z/
COASTAL COLLIER-INLAND COLLIER-
1255 PM EDT WED MAR 26 2014

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR
RELATIVE HUMIDITY BELOW 35 PERCENT, 20 FOOT WINDS ABOVE 15 MPH,
AND ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT IN THE UPPER 20S FOR METRO AND INLAND
COLLIER COUNTY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. 

* AFFECTED AREA...METRO AND INLAND COLLIER COUNTY.

* WIND...20 FOOT WINDS WILL BE ABOVE 15 MPH.

* HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES WILL BE IN THE UPPER 20S TO
  LOWER 30S.

* ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT (ERC)...THE ENERGY RELEASE COMPONENT
  WILL BE IN THE UPPER 20S.

* HIGHEST THREAT...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD
  RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED.

* 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 CAN
CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR.

&&

$$

BAXTER
1 follow-up statement
086 
WWUS82 KMFL 262219
RFWMFL

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
619 PM EDT WED MAR 26 2014


FLZ069-070-262330-
/O.CAN.KMFL.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140326T2300Z/
COASTAL COLLIER-INLAND COLLIER-
619 PM EDT WED MAR 26 2014

...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR METRO AND INLAND COLLIER
COUNTY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG
WARNING AS RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ARE ONLY RUNNING IN THE 30S ACROSS
THE AREA AND WINDS ARE AVERAGING 12-14 MPH.


$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 3:38 AM EDTRip Current StatementMFLBroward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach3 days
Mar 26, 3:07 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMFL12 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.