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Areal Flood Warning 7, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this areal flood warning at Aug 22, 2008, 5:42 AM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. 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
- Aug 22, 2008, 5:42 AM EDT (09:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
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 09:42 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Aug 22, 4:22 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 4:22 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 5:50 PM EDT, 11 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 550 PM EDT THU AUG 21 2008 AMZ550-552-555-570-572-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141- 144-147-221000- COASTAL WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SEBASTIAN INLET TO JUPITER INLET OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- WATERS FROM VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- WATERS FROM SEBASTIAN INLET 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- 550 PM EDT THU AUG 21 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO THE TROPICAL STORM LOCAL STATEMENT AND ITS GRAPHICAL COMPONENT FOR INFORMATION ON EXPECTED IMPACTS FROM TROPICAL STORM FAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. IMPACTS FROM FAY ARE EXPECTED TO LINGER INTO FRIDAY WITH A RETURN TO A MORE TYPICAL SUMMER PATTERN THIS WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER AND SELF ACTIVATE IF NEEDED. SEDLOCK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 2:40 AM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Lake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 8:37 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MLB | 31 hr | |
| Aug 21, 11:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Lake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia | 6 hr |
| Aug 22, 9:15 AM EDT | Inland Tropical Storm Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 11:32 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | MLB | Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 6 hr |
| Aug 22, 12:05 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | MLB | Lake, Seminole, Volusia | 59 days |
| Aug 22, 12:05 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | MLB | Lake, Seminole, Volusia | 68 days |
| Aug 22, 12:05 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | MLB | Seminole | 44 days |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Florida, 2008Every areal flood warning in 2008
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.