Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Apr 9, 2016, 4:05 AM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Apr 9, 2016, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Apr 9, 2016, 4:05 AM EDT (08:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 9, 2016, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 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 08:08 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 2085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
663 WWUS82 KMLB 090805 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 405 AM EDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...DRY AND BREEZY TODAY... FLZ041-044>046-053-058-141-144-100000- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0002.160409T1400Z-160410T0000Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY-ORANGE-SEMINOLE- OSCEOLA-OKEECHOBEE-COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY- 405 AM EDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA... INLAND VOLUSIA COUNTY... NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY... ORANGE... SEMINOLE... OSCEOLA... OKEECHOBEE... COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY... SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY. * WIND...20 FOOT WINDS NEAR 15 MPH WITH FREQUENT HIGHER GUSTS IN THE AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY BETWEEN 25 AND 30 PERCENT ALONG AND NORTH OF I-4...BETWEEN 30 AND 35 PERCENT SOUTH OF I-4. * 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. && $$ BRAGAW
1 follow-up statement
524 WWUS82 KMLB 091818 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 218 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR INTERIOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ZONES AND COASTAL VOLUSIA AND NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY THROUGH EARLY EVENING... FLZ147-100000- /O.EXA.KMLB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160410T0000Z/ NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY- 218 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA... NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY. * WIND...20 FOOT WINDS NEAR 15 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS IN THE AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY BETWEEN 30 AND 35 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ FLZ041-044>046-053-058-141-144-100000- /O.CON.KMLB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160410T0000Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY-ORANGE-SEMINOLE- OSCEOLA-OKEECHOBEE-COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY- 218 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * AFFECTED AREA... INLAND VOLUSIA COUNTY... NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY... ORANGE... SEMINOLE... OSCEOLA... OKEECHOBEE... COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY... SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY. * WIND...20 FOOT WINDS NEAR 15 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS IN THE AFTERNOON. * HUMIDITY...RELATIVE HUMIDITY BETWEEN 20 AND 30 PERCENT. * 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. && $$ 15
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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.