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Beach Hazards Statement 10, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 18, 2015, 3:28 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 18, 2015, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 18, 2015, 3:28 AM EDT (07:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 18, 2015, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:31 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 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
747 WHUS42 KMLB 180728 CFWMLB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 328 AM EDT SUN OCT 18 2015 FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-190000- /O.NEW.KMLB.BH.S.0010.151018T1400Z-151019T0000Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN- COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY- 328 AM EDT SUN OCT 18 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR THE EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA COAST...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING. * HAZARDS...STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PRODUCE ROUGH AND CHOPPY SURF ALONG WITH A DANGEROUS LONGSHORE CURRENT FLOWING PARALLEL TO THE BEACH. * TIMING...ROUGH AND CHOPPY SURF AND STRONG CURRENTS WILL BE PRESENT THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. * LOCATION...THE ATLANTIC COAST BEACHES FROM ORMOND BEACH TO JUPITER INLET. * POTENTIAL IMPACTS...ROUGH AND CHOPPY SURF AND DANGEROUS CURRENTS WILL BE PRESENT IN THE SURF ZONE...ADDITIONALLY THERE WILL BE A MODERATE DANGER OF RIP CURRENTS. SWIMMERS SHOULD CHECK WITH BEACH PATROL AND LIFE GUARDS FOR THE LATEST SURF CONDITIONS AND DO NOT ENTER THE WATER UNLESS IT IS ADVISABLE TO DO SO. NEVER SWIM ALONE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS RIP CURRENTS...LONGSHORE CURRENTS...ROUGH SURF AND OTHER HAZARDS CREATE LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS IN THE SURF ZONE. CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER. && $$ JP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 3:15 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 17 hr |
Nearby
Beach Hazards Statements in Florida, 2015Every beach hazards statement in 2015
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.