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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2016, 4:39 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 81 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 9, 2016, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 81 min
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
County Brevard County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 1064 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
985
WWUS82 KMLB 092039
SPSMLB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
439 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2016
FLZ047-147-092200-
NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY FL-SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY FL-
439 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BREVARD COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM
EDT...
AT 437 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPING NEAR THE WESTERN BREVARD COUNTY LINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT
20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY
THE STRONGEST STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PALM BAY...MELBOURNE...TITUSVILLE...ROCKLEDGE AND MIMS.
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 2782 8047 2785 8049 2782 8051 2782 8087
2835 8086 2843 8090 2847 8090 2847 8087
2851 8088 2853 8094 2879 8097 2880 8069
2861 8055 2844 8051 2839 8056 2835 8057
2814 8054 2782 8039
TIME...MOT...LOC 2037Z 243DEG 16KT 2823 8088
$$
15The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Okeechobee | 56 min |
| Aug 9, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Martin | 53 min |
| Aug 9, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Osceola | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Okeechobee | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 92 min | |
| Aug 9, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Osceola | 28 min |
| Aug 9, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MLB | 84 min | |
| Aug 9, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Indian River | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Martin, Saint Lucie | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Volusia | 31 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.