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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

July 16, 2023Martin County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2023, 4:00 PM EDT for Martin County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 16, 2023, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2023, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Martin County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 1667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		113 min
Jul 16, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	37 min
Jul 16, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	34 min
Jul 16, 2:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MLB	Volusia	92 min
Jul 16, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	36 min
Jul 16, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		91 min
Jul 16, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee	34 min
Jul 16, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	31 min
Jul 16, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee	41 min
Jul 16, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Jul 16, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Martin	47 min
Jul 16, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Martin	30 min
Jul 16, 4:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Martin	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.