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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 9, 2014Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2014, 5:13 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 47 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 2014, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2014, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL

County Brevard County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 9, 5:30 PM EDT	TSTM WND GST 40	6 Ene Sharpes, FL	USAF TOWER 0803 RECORDED A 35 KNOT WIND GUST OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST.
Aug 9, 5:45 PM EDT	NON-TSTM WND GST 43	3 S Playalinda Beach, FL	USAF TOWER 0211 MEASURED A 37 KNOT WIND GUST OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST. INSTRUMENT HEIGHT 54 FEET.
Aug 9, 5:53 PM EDT	TSTM WND GST 48	5 Sw Playalinda Beach, FL	THE AWOS AT THE SHUTTLE LANDING FACILITY, KTTS, RECORDED A 42 KNOT WIND GUST OUT OF THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 22 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -17 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.

282 
WWUS82 KMLB 092113
SPSMLB

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
513 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2014

FLZ047-147-092200-
NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
513 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2014

...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS
OVER BREVARD COUNTY...

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT.

AT 512 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
STORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS FROM COCOA TO JUST 
WEST OF VIERA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM WHICH MAY EXPERIENCE STRONG WINDS 
INCLUDE CANAVERAL GROVES...JETTY PARK...MERRITT ISLAND...SUNTREE AND 
VIERA.

THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE FREQUENT TO EXCESSIVE CLOUD TO GROUND 
LIGHTNING STRIKES AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...WHICH CAN CAUSE 
UNSECURED OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND...SNAP TREE LIMBS...CAUSE POWER 
OUTAGES OR CAPSIZE SMALL BOATS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL TEMPORARILY 
REDUCE VISIBILITY. SEEK SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

LAT...LON 2843 8056 2836 8060 2825 8060 2814 8057
      2802 8086 2849 8087 2872 8097 2877 8096
      2879 8078 2870 8071 2868 8066 2871 8070
      2874 8071 2876 8074 2879 8075 2880 8073
      2859 8057 2845 8052
TIME...MOT...LOC 2111Z 256DEG 8KT 2840 8074 2814 8085

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		88 min
Aug 9, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		65 min
Aug 9, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		57 min
Aug 9, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Flagler	44 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.