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Fire Weather Watch 7, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this fire weather watch at Feb 24, 2012, 3:23 PM EST for 5 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 25, 2012, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2012, 3:23 PM EST (20:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2012, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2012, 4:19 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 20:25 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Feb 24, 2:53 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 2:53 PM EST, 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 24, 10:05 AM EST, 5 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1005 AM EST FRI FEB 24 2012 AMZ550-552-555-570-572-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141- 144-147-241900- 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- 1005 AM EST FRI FEB 24 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .HIGH WIND IMPACT... A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 20 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS LAKE...VOLUSIA...SEMINOLE...ORANGE...OSCEOLA AND BREVARD COUNTIES. SLIGHTLY LOWER WIND SPEEDS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM OKEECHOBEE COUNTY TO THE TREASURE COAST. THESE WINDS WILL MAKE OPEN WATERS ON THE INTRACOASTAL WATERS AND INLAND LAKES VERY CHOPPY...WHICH CAN TIP OR SWAMP SMALL CRAFT. .SMOKE IMPACT... SMOKE MAY SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE VISIBILITIES ALONG I 95 IN NORTH BREVARD COUNTY NEAR TITUSVILLE DUE TO A LARGE SMOLDERING WILDFIRE. .RIP CURRENT IMPACT... WEATHER AND OCEAN CONDITIONS WILL PRODUCE AN ELEVATED THREAT FOR RIP CURRENTS AT THE BEACHES OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA TODAY. ALWAYS SWIM WITHIN SIGHT OF A LIFEGUARD. .WIND AND SEA IMPACT... A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR OFFSHORE WATERS NORTH OF SEBASTIAN INLET. ELSEWHERE SMALL CRAFT SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION OVER THE OPEN ATLANTIC DUE TO SOUTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 20 KNOTS. SHORT PERIOD WIND WAVES WILL PRODUCE CHOPPY CONDITIONS OVER ALL THE WATERS. .FIRE WEATHER IMPACT... STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CAUSE CONTROL PROBLEMS WITH ANY NEW OR EXISTING FIRES. DUE TO A DRY LAYER OF AIR ABOVE THE SURFACE MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES MAY FALL CLOSE TO CRITICAL VALUES THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS BEHIND A COLD FRONT WILL PRODUCE HAZARDOUS BOATING CONDITIONS SATURDAY WHILE A COMBINATION OF WIND AND DRIER AIR WILL INCREASE THE FIRE THREAT OVER LAND. BOATING CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN POOR THROUGH TUESDAY DUE TO A STOUT ONSHORE FLOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. SEDLOCK/KELLY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:58 AM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 14 hr |
| Feb 24, 10:27 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | MLB | 66 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.