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Beach Hazards Statement 14, NWS Melbourne, FL

October 27, 2015Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 27, 2015, 4:57 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 2015, 4:57 AM EDT (08:57 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 15 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 08:57 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 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.

384 
WHUS42 KMLB 270857
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
457 AM EDT TUE OCT 27 2015

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-280000-
/O.NEW.KMLB.BH.S.0014.151027T0857Z-151028T0000Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-
COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
457 AM EDT TUE OCT 27 2015

...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A BEACH
HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR ROUGH SURF...LONGSHORE CURRENTS AND RIP
CURRENTS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* HAZARDS...SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 15 KNOTS WILL CREATE A
  MODERATE LONGSHORE CURRENT AND RIP CURRENT RISK. HEAVY BREAKING
  WAVES WILL ALSO EXIST IN THE SURF ZONE.

* TIMING...LONGSHORE CURRENTS...HEAVY BREAKING WAVES AND DANGEROUS
  RIP CURRENTS NEAR PIERS AND JETTIES WILL EXIST ALL DAY. OTHER
  SPOTS ON THE BEACH PRONE TO RIP CURRENTS SHOULD HAVE THE
  GREATEST RISK FROM LATE MORNING THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON.

* LOCATION...THE EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA ATLANTIC SURF ZONE FROM
  FLAGLER BEACH TO JUPITER INLET.

* POTENTIAL IMPACTS...LONGSHORE CURRENTS CAN PULL YOU OFF THE
  SANDBAR INTO DEEPER WATER. HEAVY BREAKING WAVES CAN KNOCK YOU
  DOWN AND MAKE YOU SUSCEPTIBLE TO GETTING CAUGHT IN THE SEAWARD
  PULL OF RIP CURRENTS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SWIMMERS SHOULD CHECK WITH BEACH PATROL AND LIFEGUARDS FOR THE
LATEST SURF ZONE CONDITIONS AND DO NOT ENTER THE WATER UNLESS IT
IS ADVISABLE TO DO SO. SWIM ONLY WITHIN SIGHT OF A LIFEGUARD AND
NEVER SWIM ALONE.

&&

$$
LASCODY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 27, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Volusia	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.