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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 6, 2006, 3:57 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 7, 2006, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 2006, 3:57 AM EST (08:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 7, 2006, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2006, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 8 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 08:59 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, 9.0 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
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS42 KMLB 060857 WSWMLB URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 357 AM EST FRI JAN 6 2006 ...WIND CHILLS IN THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S LIKELY LATE TONIGHT... .THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON WILL REACH CENTRAL FLORIDA TONIGHT AND COMBINED WITH 10 MPH WINDS...WILL MAKE IT FEEL UNUSUALLY COLD. FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147-071400- /O.NEW.KMLB.WC.Y.0001.060107T0600Z-060107T1400Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE- SOUTHERN BREVARD-OSCEOLA-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN- COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE-NORTHERN BREVARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DE LAND...LEESBURG...ORLANDO... SANFORD...MELBOURNE...PALM BAY...KISSIMMEE...ST CLOUD... VERO BEACH...OKEECHOBEE...FORT PIERCE...HOBE SOUND... DAYTONA BEACH...CLERMONT...TITUSVILLE 357 AM EST FRI JAN 6 2006 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EST SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL ADVISORY FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FOR EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON WILL REACH CENTRAL FLORIDA TONIGHT...WITH AIR TEMPERATURES FALLING INTO THE 30S AFTER MIDNIGHT. THESE TEMPERATURES...COMBINED WITH 10 MPH WINDS...WILL MAKE IT FEEL EVEN COLDER. WIND CHILL READINGS WILL LIKELY FALL INTO THE LOWER 30S AFTER 1 AM...WITH MINIMUM WIND CHILLS REACHING THE UPPER 20S ACROSS MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA AROUND SUNRISE SATURDAY. A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND WINDS NEAR OR ABOVE 10 MPH WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN VERY UNCOMFORTABLE CONDITIONS FOR THOSE NOT USE TO THE COLD OR ANYONE REMAINING OUTDOORS FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS TONIGHT...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. BRING PETS INSIDE OVERNIGHT. $$ SPRATT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS42 KMLB 062032 WSWMLB URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 332 PM EST FRI JAN 6 2006 ...WIND CHILLS IN THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S LIKELY LATE TONIGHT... .THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON WILL REACH CENTRAL FLORIDA TONIGHT AND COMBINED WITH 10 MPH WINDS...WILL MAKE IT FEEL UNUSUALLY COLD. FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147-071400- /O.CON.KMLB.WC.Y.0001.060107T0600Z-060107T1400Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE- SOUTHERN BREVARD-OSCEOLA-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN- COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE-NORTHERN BREVARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DE LAND...LEESBURG...ORLANDO... SANFORD...MELBOURNE...PALM BAY...KISSIMMEE...ST CLOUD... VERO BEACH...OKEECHOBEE...FORT PIERCE...HOBE SOUND... DAYTONA BEACH...CLERMONT...TITUSVILLE 332 PM EST FRI JAN 6 2006 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EST SATURDAY... THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON WILL REACH CENTRAL FLORIDA TONIGHT ...WITH AIR TEMPERATURES FALLING INTO THE 30S AFTER MIDNIGHT. THESE TEMPERATURES...COMBINED WITH 10 MPH WINDS...WILL MAKE IT FEEL EVEN COLDER. WIND CHILL READINGS WILL LIKELY FALL INTO THE LOWER 30S AFTER 1 AM...WITH MINIMUM WIND CHILLS REACHING THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 20S NEAR THE OCALA FOREST...AND THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 20S ACROSS THE REST OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA AROUND SUNRISE SATURDAY. A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND WINDS NEAR OR ABOVE 10 MPH WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN VERY UNCOMFORTABLE CONDITIONS FOR THOSE NOT USE TO THE COLD OR ANYONE REMAINING OUTDOORS FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS TONIGHT...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. BRING PETS INSIDE OVERNIGHT. $$ TES
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Jan 6, 3:23 AM EST, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 3:23 AM EST, 34 minutes before
EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 323 AM EST FRI JAN 6 2006 ...FREEZING TEMPS NORTH INTERIOR WITH LOW WIND CHILLS ENTIRE AREA SATURDAY MORNING... ...EVEN COLDER WITH FROST AND/OR FREEZING TEMPS POSSIBLE MANY AREAS SUNDAY MORNING... .DISCUSSION...STRONG COLD FRONT CURRENTLY DROPPING RADIDLY SOUTH FROM NORTHERN CWA...MARKED BY GUSTY NW WIND SHIFT...FALLING TEMPS...AND SIGNIFICANT DEWPOINT REDUCTION. NARROW BAND OF SPRINKLES PRECEDES FRONT AND WILL MOVE SOUTH OF CWA DURING NEXT HOUR. AS ADVERTIZED FOR SOME TIME...TODAY WILL FEATURE STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION ON BREEZY/WINDY NW TRAJECTORY. MAX TEMPS WILL BE 15 TO 20 DEGREES COOLER THAN THU AFTERNOON...OR ABOUT 10-12 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. CENTER OF COLD POOL ALOFT...MINUS 28C AT 500 MB...WILL SWING DIRECTLY ACROSS CWA THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING...AND WILL LIKELY GENERATE LARGE AREA OF CLOUDINESS AND PERIOD OF ENHANCED WIND GUSTS. EXPECT CURRENT CLOUD COVER TO BREAK SOME INITIALLY THIS MORNING... FOLLOWED BY RETURN TO CONSIDERABLE/MOSTLY CLOUD SKIES THIS AFTERNOON. TONIGHT...STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION PATTERN CONTINUES...WITH SURFACE WINDS EXPECTED TO REMAIN BIT HIGHER THAN GUIDANCE...DROPPING TO NEAR 10 MPH OVERNIGHT. AIRMASS SUPPORTS 30S FOR ENTIRE CWA BY DAYBREAK SATURDAY...WITH COLDEST READINGS OF 30-32F ACROSS LAKE AND INTERIOR VOLUSIA WHERE FREEZE WATCH WILL BE UPGRADED TO A WARNING. ADJACENT RURAL AREAS OF SEMINOLE/ORNAGE COUNTIES MAY ALSO EXPERIENCE MINS NEAR 32. FARTHER SOUTH...LOW/MID 30S EXPECTED...WITH ONLY SE COAST PERHAPS REMAINING AS *WARM* AS THE UPPER 30S. WINDS WILL PROHIBIT FROST FORMATION. WIND CHILLS SHOULD FALL BELOW 35 DEGREES ACROSS ENTIRE CWA SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT...REACHING THE UPPER 20S FOR SEVERAL HOURS ACROSS MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA AROUND DAYBREAK SATURDAY. THEREFORE...A WIND CHILL ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED FOR ENTIRE CWA FOR LATE TONIGHT/EARLY SATURDAY. SAT/SAT NIGHT...COOL HIGH PRESSURE WILL WORK OVER THE STATE FROM THE GULF REGION WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND DRY CONDITIONS. TEMPS WILL REMAIN IN THE 50S ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA WITH VERY LOW DEWPOINT READINGS IN THE AFTERNOON. EXPECT RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES AT SUNSET SAT EVENING WITH THE COLDEST NIGHT IN NEARLY THREE YEARS ACROSS THE SPACE COAST AND TREASURE COAST SOUTH TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE. WITH CALM WINDS FROST DEVELOPMENT ACROSS A LARGE AREA IS ALSO EXPECTED. MODEL GUID CONTINUES TO SUGGEST THE POSSIBILITY OF FREEZING TEMPERATURES SOUTH TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AND SHELTERED LOCATIONS. A FREEZE WATCH FOR SUNDAY MORNING WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED FOR A LARGER PORTION OF THE AREA LATER TODAY. UNTIL THEN...WILL HIGHLIGHT THREATS WITHIN HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. SUN...HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE AXIS EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL FL TO THE ADJACENT ATLC WATERS WILL PROVIDE FOR SUNNY AND COOL CONDITIONS. A WARMING TREND COMMENCES WITH HIGHS MAKING IT BACK TO THE MID/UPR 60S IN THE AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...NIL WEATHER. MON-THU...THE SURFACE RIDGE ACROSS THE AREA WILL SLOWLY WEAKEN THROUGH MIDWEEK WITH A ZONAL TENDENCY TO MID LATITUDE FLOW PATN. A GENERAL INCREASE IN ONSHORE FLOW IS PROJECTED FROM AROUND TUE ONWARD WITH MILD TEMPS AND NEUTRAL MOISTURE. TEMPS WILL RETURN TO NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. VEERING FLOW BY THU SHOULD SUPPLY ENUF LL MOISTURE TO MENTION PRECIP CHANCE IN AFTERNOON. THANKS JAX/TBW/MFL FOR COORDINATION. && .MARINE...FRONTAL WIND SHIFT CURRENTLY OCCURRING OVER NORTHERMOST WATERS WILL SPREAD RAPIDLY SOUTH THROUGH REMAINDER OF THE AREA NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. NW GRADIENT WILL INCREASE TO 20 KT NEARSHORE AND 25 KT OFFSHORE WITH HIGHER GUSTS...RESULTING IN RAPIDLY BUILDING SEAS AWAY FROM IMMEDIATE COAST. SCA WILL BE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE NEARSHORE WATERS. COLD AIR ADVECTION PATTERN WILL SUPPORT SCA WINDS INTO EARLY SATURDAY. RELAXING GRADIENT WILL RETURN MUCH LIGHTER WINDS BY LATE SATURDAY...ALTHOUGH SEAS WILL BE SLOW TO SUBSIDE...REACHING BELOW SCA/SCEC LEVELS BY LATE IN THE WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...ZONE OF BROKEN MVFR CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTH...AFFECTING KVRB NEXT HOUR OR TWO. MAINLY VFR WITH PERIODS OF SUNSHINE FIRST HALF OF DAY WILL LIKELY GIVE WAY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS NEAR 3KFT THIS AFTERNOON AS COLD POOL REACHES REGION. TREND OF DECREASING CLOUDS ANTICIPATED BETWEEN SUNSET AND MIDNIGHT AS MID LEVEL TROUGH PASSES. OTHER CONCERN TODAY WILL BE GUSTY NW SURFACE WINDS...OCCASIONALLY REACHING 25KT THROUGH SUNSET. && .FIRE WEATHER...SIGNIFICANT DRY INTRUSION BEHIND TODAYS FRONT. ADVECTIVE FREEZE TONIGHT EXTREME NORTH WITH DRY SIR SURGING SOUTH INTO SAT. A FIRE WATCH IS IN PLACE FOR SAT AT THIS TIME AND AN UPGRADE TO WARNING WILL BE CONSIDERED LATER TODAY. LOW RHS ON SUNDAY MAY REQUIRE A HEADLINE FOR LOW RH DURATION. A RETURN TO ONSHORE FLOW ON MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WILL BEGIN TO MODERATE RHS OVER THE AREA. NO RAIN IS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DAB 57 34 58 31 / 0 0 0 0 MCO 56 35 57 34 / 0 0 0 0 MLB 60 35 59 34 / 0 0 0 0 VRB 62 35 60 34 / 0 0 0 0 && .MLB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FLAGLER BEACH-JUPITER INLET. WIND CHILL ADVISORY TONIGHT FOR ALL ECFL COUNTIES. FREEZE WARNING TONIGHT LAKE AND INTERIOR VOLUSIA COUNTIES. FIRE WEATHER WATCH ALL COUNTIES SATURDAY AFTERNOON. && SHORT TERM...SPRATT LONG TERM....PENDERGRAST
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 5, 8:08 PM EST, 7 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 808 PM EST THU JAN 5 2006 AMZ550-555-570-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147- 061030- COASTAL WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO COCOA BEACH OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM COCOA BEACH TO JUPITER INLET OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO COCOA BEACH 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- WATERS FROM COCOA BEACH TO JUPITER INLET 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- INLAND VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE- SOUTHERN BREVARD-OSCEOLA-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN- COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE-NORTHERN BREVARD- 808 PM EST THU JAN 5 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT: ...WIND AND SEA IMPACT... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS LATE TONIGHT. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO NORTHWEST AND INCREASE RAPIDLY TO BETWEEN 20 AND 25 KNOTS OVER THE OFFSHORE WATERS AND TO BETWEEN 15 AND 20 KNOTS WITHIN ABOUT 20 MILES OF THE COAST. SEAS WILL BUILD TO 7 FEET OFFSHORE FRIDAY MORNING AND BETWEEN 3 AND 4 FEET CLOSER TO THE COAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY: ...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT EARLY SATURDAY MORNING FOR LAKE AND INTERIOR VOLUSIA COUNTIES... ...SUB FREEZING WIND CHILLS ACROSS ALL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA EARLY SATURDAY... GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL USHER IN THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON INTO EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FRIDAY NIGHT. FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE NORTH OF ORLANDO SATURDAY MORNING. BUT COLD WIND CHILL TEMPERATURES WILL BE EXPERIENCED EVERYWHERE...RANGING FROM THE MID 20S NORTH OF ORLANDO...TO THE LOWER 30S ALONG THE TREASURE COAST. EVEN COLDER TEMPERATURES ARE LIKELY SUNDAY MORNING...BUT WINDS WILL NOT BE A FACTOR. AS A RESULT...AREAS OF FROST AND TEMPERATURES NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. PLEASE MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS REGARDING THIS UPCOMING COLD WEATHER EVENT AND PLAN TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS ESPECIALLY FOR PLANTS AND PETS. A GRADUAL WARMING TREND WILL BEGIN SUNDAY NIGHT...MONDAY MORNING. HAZARDOUS BOATING CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH SATURDAY...WITH DIMINISHING WINDS AND SUBSIDING SEAS BEGINNING SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH FRIDAY. KELLY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 3:39 AM EST | Freeze Warning | MLB | Lake, Volusia | 28 hr |
| Jan 6, 3:28 PM EST | Freeze Watch | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 20 hr |
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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.