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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this areal flood warning at Oct 9, 2011, 5:10 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 6 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
- Oct 9, 2011, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2011, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Brevard County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Oct 9, 3:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 3:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 8, 8:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Saint Lucie and 2 more | 37 min |
| Oct 8, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Brevard, Indian River | 60 min |
| Oct 8, 9:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 2 hr |
| Oct 8, 10:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Osceola | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 10:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Osceola | 49 min |
| Oct 8, 10:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Orange, Saint Lucie, Seminole, Volusia | 114 min |
| Oct 9, 4:05 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 16 hr |
| Oct 9, 6:52 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MLB | Osceola | 113 min |
| Oct 9, 10:23 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MLB | 29 hr | |
| Oct 9, 5:27 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | MLB | Volusia | 7 hr |
Nearby
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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.