Alert archive / Florida / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this wind advisory at Aug 20, 2008, 6:24 AM EDT for Okeechobee County, Florida. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2008, 6:24 AM EDT (10:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2008, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
County Okeechobee County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 406 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS72 KMLB 201024 NPWMLB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 624 AM EDT WED AUG 20 2008 FLZ058-202200- /O.NEW.KMLB.WI.Y.0003.080820T1024Z-080821T2200Z/ OKEECHOBEE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...OKEECHOBEE 624 AM EDT WED AUG 20 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THURSDAY. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS72 KMLB 201548 NPWMLB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1148 AM EDT WED AUG 20 2008 FLZ064-210000- /O.EXA.KMLB.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-080821T2200Z/ MARTIN- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...HOBE SOUND 1148 AM EDT WED AUG 20 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THURSDAY. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ FLZ058-210000- /O.CON.KMLB.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-080821T2200Z/ OKEECHOBEE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...OKEECHOBEE 1148 AM EDT WED AUG 20 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THURSDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THURSDAY. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS72 KMLB 210016 NPWMLB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 816 PM EDT WED AUG 20 2008 FLZ058-064-212200- /O.EXT.KMLB.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-080821T2200Z/ OKEECHOBEE-MARTIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OKEECHOBEE...HOBE SOUND 816 PM EDT WED AUG 20 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM EDT THURSDAY... THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN DROPPED FOR THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD...BUT REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM EDT THURSDAY. BREEZY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT ACROSS THESE TWO COUNTIES ...WITH SUSTAINED WINDS AROUND 15 MPH AND GUSTS OF 25 TO 30 MPH... WHICH IS BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA...HOWEVER WINDS WILL PICK UP ONCE AGAIN BY MID THURSDAY MORNING...REACHING 20 TO 25 MPH SUSTAINED... WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...ESPECIALLY IN ANY SHOWERS OR SQUALLS THAT MOVE THROUGH. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ CRISTALDI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 8:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Osceola | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 10:52 PM EDT | Hurricane Watch | MLB | 14 hr | |
| Aug 19, 11:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Osceola, Saint Lucie | 7 hr |
| Aug 20, 5:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard | 7 hr |
| Aug 20, 6:10 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Osceola, Saint Lucie and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard | 8 hr |
| Aug 20, 5:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Indian River | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 5:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard | 3 hr |
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.