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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 8, 2023Brevard County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2023, 8:47 PM EDT for Brevard County, Florida. It was in force for 28 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 8, 2023, 8:47 PM EDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2023, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Brevard County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 2510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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
Aug 8, 8:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	23 min
Aug 8, 9:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	39 min
Aug 9, 3:04 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	MLB	Brevard, Indian River, Lake, Martin, Okeechobee, Orange and 4 more	16 hr
Aug 9, 3:15 PM EDT	Excessive Heat Watch	MLB	Brevard, Indian River, Lake, Martin, Okeechobee, Orange and 4 more	11 hr
Aug 9, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Saint Lucie	42 min
Aug 9, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Martin	26 min
Aug 9, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	35 min
Aug 9, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Saint Lucie	42 min
Aug 9, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Indian River	31 min
Aug 9, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Saint Lucie	43 min
Aug 9, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		85 min
Aug 9, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Indian River	31 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.