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Beach Hazards Statement 3, NWS Melbourne, FL

May 6, 2015Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this beach hazards statement at May 6, 2015, 4:24 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at May 6, 2015, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2015, 4:24 AM EDT (08:24 UTC)
In effect from: May 6, 2015, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired: May 6, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 12 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 08:25 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, 8.4 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: 555 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 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.

179 
WHUS42 KMLB 060824
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
424 AM EDT WED MAY 6 2015

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-070000-
/O.NEW.KMLB.BH.S.0003.150506T1200Z-150507T0000Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-
COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
424 AM EDT WED MAY 6 2015

...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING
THROUGH THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A BEACH
HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR ROUGH SURF WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT
THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* HAZARDS...ROUGH SURF IS EXPECTED. ALSO THERE WILL BE A MODERATE
  RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS AND A DEVELOPING LONGSHORE CURRENT THIS
  AFTERNOON. MINOR BEACH EROSION IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE TIMES OF
  HIGH TIDE.

* TIMING...TODAY INTO EARLY EVENING.

* LOCATION...ALL EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA BEACHES.

* POTENTIAL IMPACTS...ROUGH SURF WILL CAUSE HAZARDOUS SWIMMING
  CONDITIONS AT EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA BEACHES. THERE WILL BE A RISK
  OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS NEAR JETTIES AND PIERS AND ALSO A LONG
  SHORE CURRENT DEVELOPING ALONG THE COAST DURING THE LATE
  AFTERNOON. 

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.

&&

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 10:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Brevard	2 hr

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.