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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

January 17, 2016Brevard County, Osceola County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Jan 17, 2016, 5:22 AM EST for Brevard County, Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 38 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: Jan 17, 2016, 5:22 AM EST (10:22 UTC)
Expired: Jan 17, 2016, 6:00 AM EST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL

Counties Brevard County, FL, Osceola County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:22 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1407 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 16, 9:19 PM EST	Wind Advisory	MLB	Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia	18 hr
Jan 17, 4:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard	22 min
Jan 17, 5:05 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard, Indian River, Okeechobee, Osceola	55 min
Jan 17, 5:40 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard, Orange, Osceola	50 min
Jan 17, 6:23 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	52 min
Jan 17, 6:59 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Martin	46 min
Jan 17, 7:03 AM EST	Tornado Warning	MLB	Martin	14 min
Jan 17, 7:15 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		60 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.