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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

February 1, 2021Brevard County, Osceola County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Feb 1, 2021, 4:59 AM EST for Brevard County, Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 46 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: Feb 1, 2021, 4:59 AM EST (09:59 UTC)
Expired: Feb 1, 2021, 5:45 AM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL

Counties Brevard County, FL, Osceola County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 36 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1261 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted.

400 
WWUS82 KMLB 010959
SPSMLB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Melbourne FL
459 AM EST Mon Feb 1 2021
 
FLZ045-047-053-147-011045-
Southern Brevard County FL-Osceola FL-Northern Brevard County FL-
Orange FL-
459 AM EST Mon Feb 1 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BREVARD...SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE AND
EASTERN OSCEOLA COUNTIES UNTIL 545 AM EST...

At 458 AM EST, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Sharpes to 7 miles southeast of Holopaw.
Movement was east at 45 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Kenansville, Holopaw, Palm Bay, Melbourne, Titusville, Rockledge and 
Cocoa. 

LAT...LON 2785 8126 2851 8093 2859 8054 2846 8049
      2839 8056 2834 8057 2813 8054 2787 8041
TIME...MOT...LOC 0958Z 267DEG 38KT 2845 8074 2808 8096 

$$

Kelly

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 1, 2:45 AM EST	Gale Warning	MLB		40 hr
Feb 1, 2:55 AM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	MLB	Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia	30 hr
Feb 1, 4:54 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	MLB		81 min
Feb 1, 9:48 AM EST	Wind Advisory	MLB		12 hr
Feb 1, 10:05 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	MLB		52 hr
Feb 1, 6:57 PM EST	Red Flag Warning	MLB	Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole	23 hr

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.