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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this fire weather watch at Jan 22, 2011, 5:14 AM EST for 5 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 23, 2011, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 2011, 5:14 AM EST (10:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 23, 2011, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2011, 3:53 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Jan 21, 4:00 PM EST, 13 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 4:00 PM EST, 13 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 21, 11:12 AM EST, 18 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1112 AM EST FRI JAN 21 2011 AMZ550-552-555-570-572-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141- 144-147-212100- 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- 1112 AM EST FRI JAN 21 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... A PRE FRONTAL BAND OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DROP SOUTH OF THE TREASURE COAST THIS AFTERNOON. THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING STRIKES AND LOCAL HEAVY DOWNPOURS ...MARINE THUNDERSTORM GUST IMPACT... ISOLATED STORMS MOVING OFFSHORE SOUTH OF FORT PIERCE INLET COULD PRODUCE GUSTS AROUND 30 KNOTS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. ...WIND AND SEA IMPACT... WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND INCREASE BEHIND A FRONTAL BOUNDARY...MAINLY FROM CAPE CANAVERAL NORTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON... THEN ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE WATERS THIS EVENING. SMALL CRAFT OPERATORS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION IF VENTURING OFFSHORE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. BOATING CONDITIONS WILL FURTHER DETERIORATE ON SATURDAY AS NORTHWEST TO NORTH WINDS INCREASE DUE TO LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPING NORTH OF THE BAHAMAS. THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED FIRE WEATHER CONCERN THIS WEEKEND WITH A DRIER AIR MASS MOVING IN BEHIND THE FRONT. ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO EARLY NEXT WEEK WILL BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY. LASCODY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 3:45 AM EST | Freeze Warning | MLB | Lake, Volusia | 28 hr |
| Jan 22, 5:14 AM EST | Red Flag Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 13 hr |
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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.