Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Jan 16, 2014, 3:18 AM EST for Orange County, Seminole County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 16, 2014, 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 16, 2014, 3:18 AM EST (08:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 16, 2014, 11:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2014, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 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 150 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
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
277 WWUS82 KMLB 160818 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 318 AM EST THU JAN 16 2014 FLZ045-046-162300- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0001.140116T1600Z-140116T2300Z/ ORANGE-SEMINOLE- 318 AM EST THU JAN 16 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS EVENING FOR ORANGE AND SEMINOLE COUNTIES... 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. * AFFECTED AREA... ORANGE... SEMINOLE. * WIND...NORTHWEST WINDS OF 13 TO 18 MPH INTO THIS AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY...LOW HUMIDITY VALUES OF 20 TO 25 PERCENT WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON. * 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 3:26 AM EST | Freeze Warning | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 29 hr |
| Jan 16, 2:29 PM EST | Frost Advisory | MLB | Volusia | 18 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.