Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 3:38 AM EDT | Rip Current Statement | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach | 3 days |
| Mar 26, 3:07 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MFL | 12 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.