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Fire Weather Watch 13, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 3, 20074 counties in Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this fire weather watch at Mar 3, 2007, 2:10 PM EST for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 4, 2007, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 3, 2007, 2:10 PM EST (19:10 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 4, 2007, 12:00 PM EST
Expired
Mar 4, 2007, 4:56 AM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL

Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-03-03Temperature 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Mar 3, 10:20 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 10:20 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 5:16 AM EST, 8 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
516 AM EST SAT MAR 3 2007

AMZ550-555-570-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147-
032100-
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-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-SOUTHERN BREVARD-
OSCEOLA-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA-
SOUTHERN LAKE-NORTHERN BREVARD-
516 AM EST SAT MAR 3 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING ACROSS THE GULF COAST AND FLORIDA WILL PRODUCE
AN INITIAL SURGE OF STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS OVERNIGHT SUNDAY AND EARLY
MONDAY MORNING. HIGH SEAS ARE ALSO EXPECTED OVER THE OFFSHORE COASTAL
WATERS ESPECIALLY IN THE GULF STREAM.

WIND CHILLS IN THE 30S ARE FORECAST AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY THROUGH
SUNRISE MONDAY MORNING FOR MOST OF THE INTERIOR.

A VERY DRY AIR MASS SETTLING OVER THE PENINSULA SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND
MONDAY WILL LEAD TO LONG PERIODS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OVER NORTHERN
AND INTERIOR SECTIONS LATE MONDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNSET MONDAY.

IF THE WIND SHIFT TO THE NORTHEAST ON TUESDAY IS SLOWER THAN EXPECTED...
OR THE WINDS DO NOT PENETRATE INLAND AS FAR AS FORECAST...INTERIOR SECTIONS
MAY HAVE DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

DAY ONE...SPRATT
DAYS TWO-SEVEN...WIMMER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 2:10 PM ESTFire Weather WatchMLBLake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia24 hr

Nearby

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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.