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Areal Flood Advisory 41, NWS Melbourne, FL

July 28, 2021Saint Lucie County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 28, 2021, 3:44 PM EDT for Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2021, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2021, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Saint Lucie County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2021-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1469 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2021-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 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
1469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-31 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 28, 2:40 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB65 min
Jul 28, 4:38 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMLBVolusia82 min

Nearby

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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.