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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 2, 2021Martin County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2021, 5:04 PM EDT for Martin County, Florida. It was in force for 56 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: Aug 2, 2021, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL

County Martin County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1725 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

473 
WWUS82 KMLB 022104
SPSMLB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Melbourne FL
504 PM EDT Mon Aug 2 2021
 
FLZ059-064-022200-
St. Lucie FL-Martin FL-
504 PM EDT Mon Aug 2 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN ST. LUCIE AND MARTIN
COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM EDT...

At 503 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Jonathan Dickinson State Park, or near Jupiter Island, moving
northwest at 10 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Jupiter, Stuart, Indiantown, Tequesta and Jupiter Island. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 2697 8008 2697 8014 2696 8014 2695 8016
      2696 8046 2727 8047 2727 8016 2707 8008
TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 152DEG 10KT 2699 8018 

$$

Smith

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		58 min
Aug 1, 9:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	66 min
Aug 1, 9:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Aug 2, 12:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	50 min
Aug 2, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		61 min
Aug 2, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Lake	52 min
Aug 2, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		53 min
Aug 2, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	46 min
Aug 2, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Volusia	38 min
Aug 2, 2:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Volusia	111 min
Aug 2, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Orange	17 min
Aug 2, 2:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Orange	112 min
Aug 2, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	52 min
Aug 2, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Osceola	48 min
Aug 2, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		88 min
Aug 2, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Aug 2, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard, Orange, Osceola	46 min
Aug 2, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Brevard	45 min
Aug 2, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	41 min
Aug 2, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		3 hr
Aug 2, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Indian River	38 min
Aug 2, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	94 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.