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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

July 28, 2013Lake County, Orange County, Seminole County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2013, 4:01 PM EDT for Lake County, Orange County, Seminole County, Florida. It was in force for 59 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
Jul 28, 2013, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2013, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL

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

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 2013-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 579 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:00Z on 2013-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 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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What forecasters said that day

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 Jul 28, 3:18 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 3:18 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 11:24 AM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1124 AM EDT SUN JUL 28 2013

AMZ550-552-555-570-572-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-
144-147-282200-
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-
1124 AM EDT SUN JUL 28 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

.THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
SCATTERED LIGHTNING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON
AND LAST INTO THE EVENING BEFORE DISSIPATING. LATE AFTERNOON SEA
BREEZE COLLISIONS AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES INTERACTING WITH THE SEA
AND LAKE BREEZES MAY PRODUCE ISOLATED STRONGER STORMS FROM MID TO LATE
AFTERNOON FROM VOLUSIA COUNTY ALONG THE INTERSTATE FOUR CORRIDOR TO
OSCEOLA COUNTY. THE PRIMARY WEATHER HAZARDS WILL BE FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. STRONGER
STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS 45 TO 50 MPH WHILE
MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AND EAST.

.FLOOD IMPACT...
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AMOUNTS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE
IN SOME AREAS. THIS WILL PRODUCE SOME STANDING WATER IN LOW SPOTS
AND ROADWAYS. DRIVING WILL BE HAZARDOUS IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN.

.MARINE THUNDERSTORM GUST IMPACT...
SCATTERED LIGHTNING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON
AND LAST INTO THE EVENING. MOST OF THE STORMS WILL MOVE WEST TO
EAST AND IMPACT INLAND LAKES BEFORE DISSIPATING. SOME STORMS MAY
MOVE ACROSS THE INTRACOASTAL WATER WAY AND ENTER THE COASTAL WATERS
BEFORE WEAKENING ESPECIALLY NORTH OF SEBASTIAN INLET. THE PRIMARY
WEATHER HAZARDS WILL BE CLOUD TO WATER LIGHTNING STRIKES...GUSTY
WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING LIGHTNING STORMS ARE
EXPECTED EACH DAY NEXT WEEK. MOST OF THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST TO
WEST WITH LATE AFTERNOON EAST AND WEST COAST SEA BREEZE COLLISIONS
MAINLY WEST OF ORLANDO. THE PRIMARY WEATHER THREATS WILL BE CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO
40 MPH. RIP CURRENT THREAT IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE THE MIDDLE OF
NEXT WEEK AS A SMALL LONG PERIOD SWELL PROPAGATES INTO THE COASTAL
WATERS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER AND SELF ACTIVATE
IF NEEDED.

WIMMER/PENDERGRAST

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 2:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 28, 4:01 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 2:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBIndian River42 min
Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB86 min
Jul 28, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard, Indian River52 min
Jul 28, 4:57 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMLBOrange, Seminole2 hr
Jul 28, 5:17 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB88 min
Jul 28, 7:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBIndian River, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie88 min

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.