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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Mar 19, 2017, 4:36 AM EDT for Orange County, Osceola County, Seminole County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 19, 2017, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 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 19, 2017, 4:36 AM EDT (08:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 19, 2017, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2017, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 1837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
950 WWUS82 KMLB 190836 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Melbourne FL 436 AM EDT Sun Mar 19 2017 FLZ045-053-192300- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0003.170319T1800Z-170319T2300Z/ Orange-Osceola- 436 AM EDT Sun Mar 19 2017 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WITH GUSTY WINDS FOR ORANGE AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES... The National Weather Service in Melbourne has issued a Red Flag Warning, which is in effect from 2 PM this afternoon to 7 PM EDT this evening. * AFFECTED AREA...Orange...Osceola. * WIND...Northwest to north 15 mph with gusts around 20 mph. * HUMIDITY...Minimum values 25 to 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 will occur. A combination of gusty winds...low relative humidity...and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior this afternoon. && $$
1 follow-up statement
117 WWUS82 KMLB 191239 RFWMLB URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Melbourne FL 839 AM EDT Sun Mar 19 2017 FLZ046-192300- /O.EXA.KMLB.FW.W.0003.170319T1800Z-170319T2300Z/ Seminole- 839 AM EDT Sun Mar 19 2017 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WITH GUSTY WINDS FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY... The National Weather Service in Melbourne has issued a Red Flag Warning, which is in effect from 2 PM this afternoon to 7 PM EDT this evening. * AFFECTED AREA...Seminole County. * WIND...Northwest to north winds 15 mph with gusts around 20 mph. * HUMIDITY...Minimum values 25 to 30 percent. * IMPACTS...any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions will occur. A combination of gusty winds...low relative humidity...and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior this afternoon. && $$ FLZ045-053-192300- /O.CON.KMLB.FW.W.0003.170319T1800Z-170319T2300Z/ Orange-Osceola- 839 AM EDT Sun Mar 19 2017 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WITH GUSTY WINDS FOR ORANGE AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES... * AFFECTED AREA...Orange and Osceola Counties. * WIND...Northwest to north winds 15 mph with gusts around 20 mph. * HUMIDITY...Minimum values 25 to 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 will occur. A combination of gusty winds...low relative humidity...and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior this afternoon. && $$
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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.