Alert archive / Florida / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this wind advisory at Jan 7, 2015, 3:18 PM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 7, 2015, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2015, 3:18 PM EST (20:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 7, 2015, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2015, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 18 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 20:17 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 12:00Z, 8.3 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
- 2460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
480 WWUS72 KMLB 072018 NPWMLB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 318 PM EST WED JAN 7 2015 ...STRONG AND GUSTY NORTH-NORTHEAST WINDS BEHIND COLD FRONT LATE TONIGHT... FLZ047-141-147-081700- /O.NEW.KMLB.WI.Y.0001.150108T0300Z-150108T1700Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-COASTAL VOLUSIA-NORTHERN BREVARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MELBOURNE...PALM BAY...DAYTONA BEACH... TITUSVILLE 318 PM EST WED JAN 7 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON EST THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON EST THURSDAY. * WINDS...NORTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE RAPIDLY LATE THIS EVENING TO AROUND 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS CAN TOPPLE SMALL TREES AND BLOW AROUND LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH CANS AND LAWN FURNITURE. THESE GUSTY WINDS WILL PRODUCE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR NAVIGATION ON LAKES AND INLAND WATERWAYS THROUGH THURSDAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ MOSES
1 follow-up statement
901 WWUS72 KMLB 081655 NPWMLB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 1155 AM EST THU JAN 8 2015 FLZ047-141-147-082100- /O.EXT.KMLB.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-150108T2100Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-COASTAL VOLUSIA-NORTHERN BREVARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MELBOURNE...PALM BAY...DAYTONA BEACH... TITUSVILLE 1155 AM EST THU JAN 8 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... * WINDS...NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 25 MPH WILL GUST UP TO 35 MPH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS CAN BLOW AROUND LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH CANS AND LAWN FURNITURE. THESE GUSTY WINDS WILL PRODUCE VERY HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR NAVIGATION ON LAKES AND INLAND WATERWAYS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ KELLY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 4:33 AM EST | Gale Warning | MLB | 31 hr | |
| Jan 7, 4:33 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | MLB | 42 hr | |
| Jan 7, 9:46 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | MLB | Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 24 hr |
Nearby
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.