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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 8, 2016Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2016, 3:17 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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: Aug 8, 2016, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL

County Brevard County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 19 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.

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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: 313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 8, 2:45 PM EDT, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:45 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 10:00 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1000 AM EDT MON AUG 8 2016

AMZ550-552-555-570-572-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-
144-147-090200-
FLAGLER BEACH TO VOLUSIA-BREVARD COUNTY LINE 0-20 NM-VOLUSIA-
BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET 0-20 NM-
SEBASTIAN INLET TO JUPITER INLET 0-20 NM-FLAGLER BEACH TO VOLUSIA-
BREVARD COUNTY LINE 20-60 NM-VOLUSIA-
BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET 20-60 NM-
SEBASTIAN INLET TO JUPITER INLET 20-60 NM-INLAND VOLUSIA COUNTY-
NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
OSCEOLA-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-
COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY-
NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
1000 AM EDT MON AUG 8 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

.THUNDERSTORM IMPACT...
A MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW OF AIR ASSOCIATED WITH LOW PRESSURE OVER
NORTH FLORIDA WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA TODAY
WITH SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED LIGHTNING STORMS.
SHOWERS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA EARLY THIS MORNING MAY PUSH
INTO LAKE COUNTY BEFORE SUNRISE WITH REDEVELOPMENT EXPECTED
THROUGHOUT THE LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON.

TODAY'S STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 15 MPH, AND A FEW
STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING,
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES IN A 60 TO 90 MINUTE PERIOD,
AND WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. MOVE INDOORS TO SAFETY AT THE
FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING WEATHER.

.MARINE THUNDERSTORM GUST IMPACT...
A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS TODAY COULD PRODUCE WIND GUST UP TO
AROUND 35 KNOTS OVER INLAND LAKES AS WELL AS THE INTRACOASTAL AND
NEAR SHORE ATLANTIC WATERS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
ABUNDANT MOISTURE WILL LEAD TO NUMEROUS AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ON TUESDAY, WITH STORM COVERAGE
RETURNING TO MORE SEASONAL LEVELS FROM MID TO LATE WEEK.
SOUTHWEST STEERING WINDS WILL ALLOW SOME OF THE AFTERNOON STORMS
TO PUSH OFF THE MAINLAND INTO THE INTRACOASTAL AND NEAR SHORE
WATERS ON TUESDAY AND NORTH OF THE CAPE AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY.
LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS, OCCASIONAL TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING
STRIKES, AND LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS IN
STRONGER STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

SEDLOCK/JOHNSON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 2:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
213 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2016

FLZ064-081900-
MARTIN FL-
213 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN MARTIN COUNTY UNTIL 300
PM EDT...

AT 212 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF JUPITER ISLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JUPITER...STUART...INDIANTOWN...TEQUESTA AND JUPITER ISLAND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 2697 8008 2697 8014 2696 8014 2695 8016
      2696 8047 2720 8041 2720 8027 2727 8020
      2724 8015 2707 8008
TIME...MOT...LOC 1812Z 203DEG 16KT 2695 8026

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 2:30 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 2:33 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 8, 3:09 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:17 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 8:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		29 min
Aug 8, 12:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange, Seminole	41 min
Aug 8, 12:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		57 min
Aug 8, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola, Seminole	50 min
Aug 8, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		64 min
Aug 8, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	60 min
Aug 8, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Osceola	60 min
Aug 8, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	44 min
Aug 8, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		53 min
Aug 8, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		65 min
Aug 8, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		55 min
Aug 8, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Martin	47 min
Aug 8, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		94 min
Aug 8, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Indian River, Saint Lucie	45 min
Aug 8, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	42 min
Aug 8, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		60 min
Aug 8, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Indian River, Saint Lucie	60 min
Aug 8, 3:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Indian River, Saint Lucie	111 min
Aug 8, 3:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Brevard	91 min

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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.