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Beach Hazards Statement 4, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this beach hazards statement at Mar 7, 2017, 3:06 AM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 7, 2017, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2017, 3:06 AM EST (08:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 7, 2017, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2017, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
591 WHUS42 KMLB 070806 CFWMLB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 306 AM EST TUE MAR 7 2017 FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-080000- /O.NEW.KMLB.BH.S.0004.170307T1200Z-170308T0000Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN- COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY- 306 AM EST TUE MAR 7 2017 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR ROUGH SURF AND STRONG CURRENTS, WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING. * HAZARDS...STRONG CURRENTS AND ROUGH SURF. * TIMING...THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * LOCATION...VOLUSIA, BREVARD, INDIAN RIVER, SAINT LUCIE, AND MARTIN COUNTIES. * POTENTIAL IMPACTS...GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL RESULT IN LARGE WAVES AND STRONG LONGSHORE CURRENTS MOVING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. LIFE THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE NEAR PIERS AND JETTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM. DON'T FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE...FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. IF TIRED, FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT. && $$ SEDLOCK
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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.