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Beach Hazards Statement 4, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this beach hazards statement at May 24, 2015, 3:47 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at May 24, 2015, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2015, 3:47 AM EDT (07:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 24, 2015, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 24, 2015, 9:00 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 07:48 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, 7.8 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
- 1457 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
965 WHUS42 KMLB 240747 CFWMLB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 347 AM EDT SUN MAY 24 2015 FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-250100- /O.NEW.KMLB.BH.S.0004.150524T1000Z-150525T0100Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN- COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY- 347 AM EDT SUN MAY 24 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR ROUGH SURF WHICH IS IN EFFECT EARLY THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING. * HAZARDS...INCREASING ROUGH SURF IS EXPECTED. ALSO THERE WILL BE A MODERATE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS THIS MORNING AND AGAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * TIMING...THIS MORNING THROUGH THE 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. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS ROUGH SURF...RIP CURRENTS AND OTHER HAZARDS CREATE LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS IN THE SURF ZONE. CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER. THE BEST SAFETY ADVICE IS TO ONLY ENTER THE SURF NEAR A LIFEGUARD. ROUGH SURF CAN OFTEN BE MUCH MORE DANGEROUS THAN IT APPEARS WHILE STANDING ON THE BEACH. HEAVY BREAKING WAVES CAN KNOCK YOU OFF A SANDBAR INTO DEEPER WATER. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A CURRENT...NEVER ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST IT...AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. INSTEAD...TREAD WATER AND SWIM AT AN ANGLE AWAY FROM THE CURRENT. THEN ONCE OUT OF THE CURRENT...SWIM DIRECTLY BACK TOWARD THE BEACH. && $$ SEDLOCK
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.