Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 13, 2014, 3:52 AM EDT for Osceola County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 13, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 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 13, 2014, 3:52 AM EDT (07:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 13, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2014, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
County Osceola County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
272 WWUS82 KMLB 130752 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 352 AM EDT THU MAR 13 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR BREVARD AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES FROM 10 AM TO 6 PM EDT TODAY... FLZ047-053-147-132200- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0002.140313T1400Z-140313T2200Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-OSCEOLA-NORTHERN BREVARD- 352 AM EDT THU MAR 13 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...NW WINDS AROUND 15 MPH AND GUSTY AND FORECAST ERC VALUES OF 27 OR GREATER FOR BREVARD AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA... BREVARD...AND OSCEOLA. * WIND...NW WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH AND GUSTY. WINDS MAY GUST TO 25 TO 30 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MIN RHS TO 20 PERCENT ACROSS OSCEOLA COUNTY AND 30 PERCENT ACROSS BREVARD COUNTY. * 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. && $$ 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 3:53 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 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.