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Lake Wind Advisory 22, NWS Melbourne, FL

September 12, 20205 counties in Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this lake wind advisory at Sep 12, 2020, 7:40 AM EDT for 5 counties in Florida. It took effect at Sep 12, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 12, 2020, 7:40 AM EDT (11:40 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 12, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 12, 2020, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL

Counties Lake County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:40 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 77 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2020-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 764 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2020-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
764 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1000 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Sep 12, 4:03 AM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 4:03 AM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 12, 3:49 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 2:38 AM EDTFlood WatchMLBOkeechobee15 hr
Sep 12, 3:53 AM EDTRip Current StatementMLBVolusia16 hr
Sep 12, 8:52 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB83 min
Sep 12, 10:16 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB119 min
Sep 12, 10:22 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBBrevard38 min
Sep 12, 11:58 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBLake32 min
Sep 12, 12:06 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB114 min
Sep 12, 12:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBSeminole44 min
Sep 12, 12:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB112 min
Sep 12, 1:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBLake35 min
Sep 12, 1:57 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB2 hr
Sep 12, 2:44 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB2 hr
Sep 12, 3:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBIndian River52 min
Sep 12, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB58 min
Sep 12, 4:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBBrevard50 min

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in Florida, 2020Every lake wind advisory in 2020

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.