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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at May 6, 2016, 1:12 PM EDT for Lake County, Orange County, Seminole County, Florida. 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
- May 6, 2016, 1:12 PM EDT (17:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
835 WWUS82 KMLB 061712 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 112 PM EDT FRI MAY 6 2016 FLZ044>047-144-147-070000- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0003.160506T1712Z-160507T0000Z/ NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY- SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY- 112 PM EDT FRI MAY 6 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR LONG DURATION OF LOW RH WITH WIND FOR LAKE...SEMINOLE...ORANGE AND BREVARD COUNTIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA... LAKE COUNTY... ORANGE... SEMINOLE... BREVARD COUNTY. * WIND...NORTHWEST WINDS 15 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 20 TO 25 MPH. * HUMIDITY...25 TO 30 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY NEW UNATTENDED FIRES WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
754 WWUS82 KMLB 070006 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 806 PM EDT FRI MAY 6 2016 FLZ044>047-144-147-070115- /O.EXP.KMLB.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160507T0000Z/ NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY- SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY- 806 PM EDT FRI MAY 6 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR LAKE...SEMINOLE...ORANGE AND BREVARD COUNTIES... RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES HAVE RISEN ABOVE CRITICAL VALUES THIS EVENING AND THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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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.