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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Feb 21, 2014, 2:13 PM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 62 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
- Feb 21, 2014, 2:13 PM EST (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2014, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 968 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Feb 20, 2:45 PM EST, 23 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 2:45 PM EST, 23 hours 28 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 |
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| Feb 21, 1:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Volusia | 58 min |
| Feb 21, 1:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Seminole | 66 min |
| Feb 21, 1:33 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 117 min | |
| Feb 21, 3:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Seminole | 64 min |
| Feb 21, 3:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Brevard | 40 min |
| Feb 21, 3:38 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 112 min | |
| Feb 21, 4:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Indian River | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 5:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Volusia | 44 min |
| Feb 21, 6:48 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 87 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.