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Extreme Wind Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL

October 7, 2016Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this extreme wind warning at Oct 7, 2016, 5:26 AM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 109 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 7, 2016, 5:26 AM EDT (09:26 UTC)
Expired
Oct 7, 2016, 7:15 AM EDT
In force
109 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Brevard County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:27 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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 201 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2016-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 450 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2016-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

905 
WFUS52 KMLB 070926
EWWMLB
FLC009-071115-
/O.NEW.KMLB.EW.W.0001.161007T0926Z-161007T1115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
EXTREME WIND WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
526 AM EDT FRI OCT 7 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A

* EXTREME WIND WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BREVARD COUNTY IN FLORIDA...

* UNTIL 715 AM EDT

* AT 521 AM EDT...SURFACE OBSERVATIONS AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  EXTREME WINDS... ASSOCIATED WITH THE EYEWALL OF HURRICANE MATTHEW
  WERE ABOUT TO MOVE ONSHORE CAPE CANAVERAL INCLUDING PORT CANAVERAL
  AND MOVING NORTH-NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY
  DANGEROUS AND LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION!

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT DESTRUCTIVE WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 115 MPH WILL SPREAD ACROSS
THE CAPE CANAVERAL AREA...PRODUCING SWATHS OF TORNADO-LIKE DAMAGE.
A WIND GUST OF 100 MPH WAS RECENTLY RECORDED AT THE TIP OF CAPE
CANAVERAL.

&&

LAT...LON 2839 8056 2837 8063 2879 8072 2878 8068
      2864 8057 2860 8055 2846 8049
TIME...MOT...LOC 0921Z 255DEG 12KT 2849 8049 2819 8045 

$$

CRISTALDI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 6, 9:21 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningMLBLake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia84 min
Oct 6, 9:44 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningMLBSeminole31 hr
Oct 6, 11:07 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningMLBLake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia83 min
Oct 7, 2:46 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningMLBBrevard, Indian River, Saint Lucie3 hr
Oct 7, 5:43 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningMLBBrevard, Seminole, Volusia3 hr
Oct 7, 8:36 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningMLBBrevard, Seminole, Volusia3 hr
Oct 7, 11:43 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningMLBVolusia3 hr
Oct 7, 3:59 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryMLBVolusia24 hr
Oct 7, 4:26 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMLB9 days

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.