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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

September 14, 2022Saint Lucie County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Sep 14, 2022, 3:21 PM EDT for Saint Lucie County, Florida. It was in force for 24 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: Sep 14, 2022, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 2022, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Saint Lucie County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 1622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Sep 14, 10:02 AM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 10:02 AM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 14, 10:05 AM EDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 14, 3:21 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 13, 8:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Brevard, Indian River	54 min
Sep 13, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Saint Lucie	31 min
Sep 13, 8:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Saint Lucie	88 min
Sep 14, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange, Seminole	34 min
Sep 14, 4:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Orange, Osceola	94 min
Sep 14, 4:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Okeechobee, Saint Lucie	55 min
Sep 14, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	25 min
Sep 14, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	32 min
Sep 14, 5:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Osceola	119 min
Sep 14, 5:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Lake, Orange, Seminole, Volusia	94 min
Sep 14, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	31 min
Sep 14, 6:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Brevard	3 hr
Sep 14, 7:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MLB	Brevard	2 hr

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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.