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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 3, 2024Orange County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Mar 3, 2024, 3:45 PM EST for Orange County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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: Mar 3, 2024, 3:45 PM EST (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2024, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 50

County Orange County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 1378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 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
Mar 3, 7:06 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Lake	24 min
Mar 3, 12:35 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Volusia	25 min
Mar 3, 1:29 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	31 min
Mar 3, 2:05 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Polk	25 min
Mar 3, 2:50 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Sumter	25 min
Mar 3, 3:28 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	32 min
Mar 3, 4:07 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	38 min
Mar 3, 4:41 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Lake	34 min
Mar 3, 4:46 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Lake	44 min
Mar 3, 5:14 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Lake	2 hr
Mar 3, 5:29 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee	46 min
Mar 3, 5:36 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	39 min
Mar 3, 6:02 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee	43 min
Mar 3, 6:31 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	29 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.