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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2011, 1:03 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 87 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2011, 1:03 PM EDT (17:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2011, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
County Brevard County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 23, 9:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 9:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 947 AM EDT TUE AUG 23 2011 AMZ550-552-555-570-572-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141- 144-147-231900- 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- 947 AM EDT TUE AUG 23 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. .THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH SETTLING INTO NORTHEAST FLORIDA SHOULD ENHANCE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE NEAR AND NORTHWEST OF INTERSTATE 4 TODAY. SCATTERED SLOW MOVING STORMS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON AS BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS OCCUR. SLIGHTLY LOWER MOISTURE IS FORECAST SOUTHWARD TO OKEECHOBEE AND THE TREASURE COAST...BUT SCATTERED STORMS ARE STILL EXPECTED ALONG THE INLAND MOVING SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY. THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH IN ISOLATED STRONG STORMS. .FLOOD IMPACT... SLOW STORM MOTION WILL RESULT IN LOCAL 2 TO 3 INCH DOWNPOURS...LEADING TO PONDING OF WATER ON LOCAL ROADWAYS AND OTHER POORLY DRAINED AREAS. THESE PROBLEMS WILL BE AGGRAVATED IN AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE THE PAST FEW DAYS. .MARINE THUNDERSTORM GUST IMPACT... ISOLATED ATLANTIC STORMS OVER THE GULF STREAM THIS MORNING WILL DIMINISH AS THE EAST COAST SEA BREEZE DEVELOPS. THE GREATEST COVERAGE OF AFTERNOON STORMS WILL OCCUR NEAR AND NORTHWEST OF INTERSTATE 4 AS NUMEROUS BOUNDARIES INTERACT DURING THE AFTERNOON. STORM MOTION WILL BE SLOW...WITH POSSIBLY A SLIGHT SOUTHWARD DRIFT. FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND GUSTY WINDS 30 TO 35 KNOTS WILL OCCUR WITH ISOLATED STRONG STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. INCREASING ONSHORE FLOW AND SWELLS WILL OCCUR LATE WEDNESDAY AS HURRICANE IRENE MOVES THROUGH THE CENTRAL BAHAMAS. THIS WILL LEAD TO DETERIORATING BOATING CONDITIONS AND AN INCREASED RIP CURRENT RISK. IRENE IS FORECAST TO BE A LARGE AND POWERFUL CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE AS IT PASSES ABOUT 150 MILES EAST OF THE COAST ON THURSDAY. THIS WOULD PRODUCE HURRICANE CONDITIONS OVER PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WIND GUSTS OVER MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. SIGNIFICANT BEACH EROSION AND DANGEROUS SURF WILL OCCUR AS IRENE PASSES TO OUR EAST. THOUGH THE CURRENT TRACK KEEPS THE CENTER OF IRENE WELL OFFSHORE...YOU SHOULD STILL REMAIN AWARE OF THIS LARGE HURRICANE AND BE PREPARED FOR TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS STARTING LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON. . .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. LASCODY/MOSES
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 1:03 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 12:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 119 min | |
| Aug 23, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 41 min |
| Aug 23, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Indian River | 64 min |
| Aug 23, 2:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MLB | Brevard | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Orange | 55 min |
| Aug 23, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Martin, Okeechobee | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Brevard | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 3:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MLB | Lake | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MLB | Martin | 93 min |
| Aug 23, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Lake | 57 min |
| Aug 23, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Lake | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Okeechobee | 52 min |
| Aug 23, 5:06 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | MLB | 39 hr | |
| Aug 23, 6:29 PM EDT | Hurricane Local Statement | MLB | Volusia | 68 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.