Alert archive / Florida / Flood Watches in 2008
Flood Watch 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this flood watch at Aug 18, 2008, 3:04 AM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Aug 18, 2008, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2008, 3:04 AM EDT (07:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 18, 2008, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2008, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Flood severity
- None
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 06:56 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood 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 flood watch went out at Aug 17, 9:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 9:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 3:20 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MLB | 14 hr | |
| Aug 18, 5:40 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | MLB | 17 days | |
| Aug 18, 5:40 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | MLB | Volusia | 11 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:22 PM EDT | Inland Tropical Storm Watch | MLB | Lake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia | 5 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:22 PM EDT | Inland Tropical Storm Warning | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 4 days |
| Aug 18, 12:22 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | MLB | 5 hr | |
| Aug 18, 12:22 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | MLB | 18 days | |
| Aug 18, 12:22 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 4 days |
Nearby
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.