Alert archive / Florida / Beach Hazards Statements in 2015
Beach Hazards Statement 5, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this beach hazards statement at May 25, 2015, 4:04 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2015, 4:04 AM EDT (08:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2015, 7:00 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 08:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 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
- 644 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
386 WHUS42 KMLB 250804 CFWMLB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 404 AM EDT MON MAY 25 2015 ...DANGEROUS SURF AND RIP CURRENTS AT THE BEACHES AGAIN TODAY... FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-252300- /O.NEW.KMLB.BH.S.0005.150525T0804Z-150525T2300Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN- COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY- 404 AM EDT MON MAY 25 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR LIFE THREATENING ROUGH SURF AND RIP CURRENTS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * HAZARDS...ROUGH SURF...RIP CURRENTS AND LONGSHORE CURRENTS. * TIMING...ROUGH SURF WILL OCCUR ALL DAY. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM RIP CURRENTS SHOULD BE THIS MORNING AND EVENING DUE TO TIDAL EFFECTS. * POTENTIAL IMPACTS...THE ROUGH SURF APPARENTLY CAUSED ONE FATALITY IN VOLUSIA COUNTY LATE SUNDAY MORNING. SIMILARLY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR AGAIN TODAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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...OR INTO LONGSHORE CURRENTS AND RIP CURRENTS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF...AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU MUST SWIM OUT OF THE SEAWARD PULL OF THE RIP CURRENT...SWIM AT AN ANGLE AWAY FROM THE CURRENT. THEN ONCE OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT...SWIM DIRECTLY BACK TOWARD THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$ RL
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.