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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

September 9, 20114 counties in Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Sep 9, 2011, 5:57 PM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 63 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: Sep 9, 2011, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired: Sep 9, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL

Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 9, 3:48 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	MLB	Volusia	10 hr
Sep 9, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		95 min
Sep 9, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	63 min
Sep 9, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		62 min
Sep 9, 6:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	89 min
Sep 9, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		93 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.