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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Melbourne, FL

November 25, 2012Lake County, Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this frost advisory at Nov 25, 2012, 2:12 PM EST for Lake County, Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 26, 2012, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 25, 2012, 2:12 PM EST (19:12 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 26, 2012, 3:00 AM EST
Expired
Nov 26, 2012, 8:00 AM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL

Counties Lake County, FL, Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2012-11-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2012-11-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 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.

363 
WWUS72 KMLB 251912
NPWMLB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
212 PM EST SUN NOV 25 2012

FLZ041-044-141-144-261300-
/O.NEW.KMLB.FR.Y.0002.121126T0800Z-121126T1300Z/
INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DE LAND...LEESBURG...DAYTONA BEACH...
CLERMONT
212 PM EST SUN NOV 25 2012

...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EST MONDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A FROST
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EST MONDAY. 

* TEMPERATURE...CLEAR SKIES AND CALM WINDS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES
  TO FALL TO THEIR DEWPOINTS IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S ACROSS MUCH
  OF LAKE AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES TONIGHT.

* IMPACTS...WHERE TEMPERATURES FALL INTO THE MID AND UPPER 30S...
  AREAS OF FROST ARE EXPECTED TO FORM EARLY MONDAY MORNING. THE
  BEST CHANCE FOR FROST SHOULD OCCUR FROM PIERSON AND DE LAND...
  TO UMATILLA...THE VILLAGES...OKAHUMPKA AND MASCOTTE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR
PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.

&&

$$

KELLY
1 follow-up statement
420 
WWUS72 KMLB 261307
NPWMLB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
807 AM EST MON NOV 26 2012

FLZ041-044-141-144-261415-
/O.EXP.KMLB.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-121126T1300Z/
INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-COASTAL VOLUSIA-SOUTHERN LAKE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DE LAND...LEESBURG...DAYTONA BEACH...
CLERMONT
807 AM EST MON NOV 26 2012

...FROST ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...

TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED INTO THE UPPER 40S ACROSS THE ADVISORY
AREA. THUS THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. 

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 25, 2:39 AM ESTRip Current StatementMLBVolusia16 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.