Alert archive / Florida / Extreme Wind Warnings in 2016
Extreme Wind Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
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 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.
- 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
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
$$
CRISTALDIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 9:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia | 84 min |
| Oct 6, 9:44 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | MLB | Seminole | 31 hr |
| Oct 6, 11:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Lake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia | 83 min |
| Oct 7, 2:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Saint Lucie | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 5:43 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Seminole, Volusia | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 8:36 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Seminole, Volusia | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:43 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | MLB | Volusia | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:59 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | MLB | Volusia | 24 hr |
| Oct 7, 4:26 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MLB | 9 days |
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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.