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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL
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.
- 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
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 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 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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Indian River | 42 min |
| Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 86 min | |
| Jul 28, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard, Indian River | 52 min |
| Jul 28, 4:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MLB | Orange, Seminole | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 88 min | |
| Jul 28, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Indian River, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie | 88 min |
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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.