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Lake Wind Advisory 5, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this lake wind advisory at Feb 26, 2008, 9:40 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 26, 2008, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2008, 9:40 AM EST (14:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 26, 2008, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2008, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 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 14:43 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, 2.7 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
- 179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake wind 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 lake wind advisory went out at Feb 26, 3:45 AM EST, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 3:45 AM EST, 5 hours 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2:37 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:44 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 48 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:34 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 28 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Osceola | 24 min |
| Feb 26, 3:16 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 59 min | |
| Feb 26, 3:44 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 91 min | |
| Feb 26, 4:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 61 min |
| Feb 26, 5:10 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 95 min | |
| Feb 26, 5:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia | 65 min |
| Feb 26, 6:23 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 97 min | |
| Feb 26, 6:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 48 min |
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in Florida, 2008Every lake wind advisory 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.