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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL

November 1, 20146 counties in Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Nov 1, 2014, 1:30 AM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Nov 1, 2014, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 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
Nov 1, 2014, 1:30 AM EDT (05:30 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 1, 2014, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired
Nov 1, 2014, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL

Counties Lake County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2014-11-01Temperature 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2014-11-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -140 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 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.

327 
WWUS82 KMLB 010530
RFWMLB

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
130 AM EDT SAT NOV 1 2014

FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-141-144-147-012200-
/O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0003.141101T1600Z-141101T2200Z/
INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-SOUTHERN BREVARD-
OSCEOLA-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE-
NORTHERN BREVARD-
130 AM EDT SAT NOV 1 2014

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EDT THIS
EVENING FOR MOST OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA DUE TO GUSTY WINDS AND
VERY LOW HUMIDITY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM EDT THIS
EVENING. 

* AFFECTED AREA... INLAND VOLUSIA... NORTHERN LAKE... ORANGE... 
  SEMINOLE... SOUTHERN BREVARD... OSCEOLA... INDIAN RIVER... 
  OKEECHOBEE... COASTAL VOLUSIA... SOUTHERN LAKE... NORTHERN 
  BREVARD. 

* WIND...STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL
  OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON.

* HUMIDITY...AFTERNOON HUMIDITY READINGS WILL STEADILY
  FALL...REACHING THE MID 20S TO LOWER 30S FOR SEVERAL HOURS 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.

&&

$$

JP

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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.