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Areal Flood Advisory 33, NWS Melbourne, FL

July 18, 2021Lake County, Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 18, 2021, 5:54 PM EDT for Lake County, Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 2021, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2021-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1226 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2021-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 6:54 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMLBVolusia96 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.