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Areal Flood Advisory 21, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this areal flood advisory at Jun 6, 2009, 6:43 PM EDT for Brevard County, Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2009, 6:43 PM EDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2009, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brevard County, FL, Osceola County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood 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 areal flood advisory went out at Jun 6, 2:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 220 PM EDT SAT JUN 6 2009 .DISCUSSION... CURRENT/TONIGHT...VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS ASSISTED BY COLD AIR ALOFT AND CUT OFF UPPER LOW OVER THE REGION. ANOTHER ROUND OF ACTIVITY ENTERING THE I-4 CORRIDOR OVER THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS WILL HAVE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. SHOWERS AND STORMS ELSEWHERE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE REGION INTO THE EVENING. WL KEEP MENTION OF SCT STORMS IN THE EVENING WITH GENERAL DECREASE IN COVERAGE AFTER 9 PM. SUNDAY...UPR LOW WILL DRIFT VERY SLOWLY EWD WHILE CONTINUING TO BE THE FOCUS FOR DIURNAL SHOWER/STORM DEVELOPMENT. POTENTIAL WILL EXIST FOR HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ONCE AGAIN DUE TO UNSTABLE CONDITIONS. WENT WITH A LITTLE COVERAGE OF PRECIP DUE TO SOME EXPECTED DRYING OF AIRMASS. SUN NIGHT-MON NIGHT...UPPER LEVEL LOW GIVES WAY TO UPPER RIDGE BUILDING OVER THE SOUTHEAST. AT THE SURFACE...STUBBORN TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE FINALLY LIFTS AWAY FROM THE PENINSULA AS WEAK HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC BUILDS ACROSS NORTH FLORIDA...ACROSS THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO TO THE LOUISIANA COAST/MISSISSIPPI DELTA AREA. ATMOSPHERE REMAINS WET AS SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST FLOW PERSISTS THROUGH MID WEEK. HOWEVER...POP/RAIN CHANCES SHOULD BACK OFF TOWARD THEIR SEASONAL NORMALS...30/40 AFTERNOON AND 20 EVENING...AS A MORE STABLE MARINE AIR MASS MOVES OVER THE AREA AND 500MB TEMPERATURES FORECAST TO WARM. UPPER TROUGH STILL HAUNTING THE AREA WITH DIMINISHING SOUTHWEST STEERING FLOW ALOFT THAT WILL RESULT IN SLOW MOVING STORMS MON AFTERNOON/EVENING. TEMPERATURES AROUND THEIR CLIMO UPPER 80S TO AROUND 90 IN THE AFTERNOON AND THE UPPER 60S/LOW 70S OVERNIGHT. PREVIOUS EXTENDED DISCUSSION... TUE-SAT...WEAK LOW-LEVEL RIDGING WILL REMAIN OVER THE CENTRAL TO NORTH-CENTRAL PORTION OF THE PENINSULA THROUGH LATE WEEK. WEAK RIDGING COMBINED WITH WEAK OVERALL FLOW WILL ALLOW BOTH EAST/WEST COAST SEA BREEZE BOUNDARIES TO PENETRATE WELL INLAND EACH AFTERNOON WITH WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RESULTING FROM SURFACE HEATING AND BOUNDARY COLLISIONS. STEERING FLOW WILL REMAIN WEAK WITH CHAOTIC AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF CELLS THAT ARE ABLE TO DEVELOP. MOST RECENT MODEL RUNS SHOW FURTHER RIDGING AND WARMER TEMPERATURES ALOFT WHICH WOULD CALL FOR SCHC TO LOW END CHC POPS THROUGH THIS PERIOD. HIGHS & LOWS WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN THE VICINITY OF SEASONAL NORMS. && .AVIATION... SCT MVFR WITH ISOLD IFR IN SHRA/TSRA THROUGH 01Z WITH IMPROVING CIGS AND REDUCED RAINFALL COVERAGE AFT 02Z. MAINLY VFR OVERNIGHT WITH EXCEPTION OF LOCALIZED MIFG/BR OVER INLAND SITES FROM 08Z- 11Z. && .MARINE... SLOWLY DEPARTING UPR LOW WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE ACTIVE WEATHER OVER LAND AREAS WITH STORMS PUSHING OFFSHORE IN THE AFTERNOON SUN- MON. RIDGING FORECAST TO REBUILD OVER THE AREA WED AND THU RESULTING IN ONSHORE FLOW AGAIN. WINDS BECOME MORE EASTERLY THU AS RIDGE AXIS MIGRATES OVER NORTH FLORIDA. WINDS 15 KNOT OR LESS WITH SEAS 4 FEET OR LESS. BOATERS ON BOTH THE ATLANTIC WATERS AND LAKES-RIVERS ON THE MAINLAND SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE WESTERN SKY FOR APPROACHING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DAB 71 87 70 89 / 30 50 20 30 MCO 71 88 70 90 / 30 50 20 30 MLB 71 86 70 87 / 30 50 20 30 VRB 72 86 69 88 / 40 50 30 40 && .MLB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. && SHORT TERM...PENDERGRAST LONG TERM....WIMMER
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 3:35 AM EDT, 15 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 335 AM EDT SAT JUN 6 2009 AMZ550-552-555-570-572-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141- 144-147-062100- 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- 335 AM EDT SAT JUN 6 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ...INCREASING THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS TODAY... ...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH EXTENDING FROM THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO INTO NORTH FLORIDA WILL SLOWLY DROP SOUTHEASTWARD TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. A DEEP LAYER SOUTHWEST FLOW OF MOISTURE COUPLED WITH A FAVORABLE UPPER LEVEL LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROUGH WILL PRODUCE NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STORMS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH...AND DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF COOL AIR ALOFT...WITH HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. IN ADDITION...FREQUENT TO EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGEST STORMS...ALONG WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CLOSELY TODAY. AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING WEATHER...HALT ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITY AND HEAD INDOORS. DEATHS AND INJURIES FROM LIGHTNING STRIKES INCREASE MARKEDLY IN JUNE. DONT BECOME A STATISTIC ...MARINE THUNDERSTORM GUST IMPACT... AGAIN TODAY...ANY STORMS THAT FORM OVER LAND WILL PUSH RAPIDLY NORTHEAST ACROSS THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY AND NEAR SHORE ATLANTIC DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 KNOTS...LOCALLY HIGHER SEAS...FREQUENT TO EXCESSIVE CLOUD TO WATER LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS... AND THERE IS THE THREAT FOR ISOLATED WATERSPOUTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND LIGHTNING STORMS WILL REMAIN HIGHER THAN NORMAL ON SUNDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH REMAINS OVERHEAD. THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL RETURN TO NORMAL THROUGHOUT NEXT WEEK AS A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE GRADUALLY BUILDS ACROSS FLORIDA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER AND SELF ACTIVATE IF NEEDED. CRISTALDI
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 2:26 PM EDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 226 PM EDT SAT JUN 6 2009 FLZ064-061930- MARTIN- 226 PM EDT SAT JUN 6 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING SOUTHERN AND EASTERN MARTIN COUNTY... AT 223 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG STORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN MARTIN COUNTY ...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STRONG STORMS INCLUDE HOBE SOUND BEACH...JOHNATHAN DICKINSON STATE PARK AND JUPITER ISLAND. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MPH. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL TEMPORARILY REDUCE VISIBILITY. SEEK SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. JP
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 634 PM EDT SAT JUN 6 2009 FLZ045-053-062315- ORANGE-OSCEOLA- 634 PM EDT SAT JUN 6 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY... CENTRAL OSCEOLA COUNTY... AT 629 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG STORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF HARMONY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE...NEAR HOLOPAW AT 640 PM EDT. OVER US 192 AT 645 PM...NEAR HARMONY AT 650 PM EDT. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MPH...WHICH MAY CAUSE UNSECURED OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. BRIEF PEA TO DIME SIZED HAIL MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED...CAUSING TEMPORARY PONDING ON SOME ROADS AND MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN IN HEAVY RAINFALL TO REDUCE THE RISK OF HYDROPLANING AND LEAVE SAFE DISTANCE BETWEEN OTHER VEHICLES. SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. MOSES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 11:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard, Osceola | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard, Osceola | 65 min |
| Jun 6, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 109 min |
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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.