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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

April 12, 20256 counties in Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this red flag warning at Apr 12, 2025, 8:08 AM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Apr 12, 2025, 12:00 PM 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
Apr 12, 2025, 8:08 AM EDT (12:08 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 12, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired
Apr 12, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Counties Charlotte County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Lee County, FL, Polk County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:07 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2025-04-12Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2025-04-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 12, 12:36 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW24 min
Apr 12, 1:00 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTBW60 min

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Florida, 2025Every red flag warning in 2025

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.