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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

April 20, 2021Seminole County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Apr 20, 2021, 8:48 AM EDT for Seminole County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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: Apr 20, 2021, 8:48 AM EDT (12:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2021, 9:15 AM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL

County Seminole County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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: 236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

As transmitted.

377 
WWUS82 KMLB 201248
SPSMLB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Melbourne FL
848 AM EDT Tue Apr 20 2021

FLZ045-147-201315-
Northern Brevard County-Orange-
848 AM EDT Tue Apr 20 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY...

At 847 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Avalon Park,
moving east at 25 mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph and funnel clouds are possible with this 
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Wedgefield, Avalon Park, Bithlo and Christmas. 

Funnel clouds can occasionally touch down and produce brief small
tornadoes. Move indoors and stay away from windows.

LAT...LON 2861 8117 2861 8097 2862 8096 2854 8092
      2850 8087 2841 8087 2845 8116
TIME...MOT...LOC 1247Z 252DEG 23KT 2852 8113 

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Combs

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 7:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	34 min
Apr 20, 7:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Orange, Seminole	29 min
Apr 20, 7:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Lake	32 min
Apr 20, 8:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	32 min
Apr 20, 8:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	23 min
Apr 20, 8:26 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		49 min
Apr 20, 9:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	52 min
Apr 20, 9:26 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		64 min
Apr 20, 11:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee	36 min
Apr 20, 11:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Indian River	43 min
Apr 20, 12:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		3 hr
Apr 20, 1:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Orange, Osceola	3 hr
Apr 20, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		3 hr
Apr 20, 2:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Brevard, Orange	3 hr
Apr 20, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	46 min
Apr 20, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard, Osceola	37 min
Apr 20, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	49 min
Apr 20, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Indian River	46 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.