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Flood Watch 4, NWS Melbourne, FL

October 26, 20256 counties in Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this flood watch at Oct 26, 2025, 12:39 PM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 26, 2025, 12:39 PM EDT (16:39 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 hr
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Flood severity: None

Counties Brevard County, FL, Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Oct 26, 6:35 AM EDT, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 6:35 AM EDT, 6 hours 4 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
Oct 26, 4:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Brevard	3 hr
Oct 26, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	50 min
Oct 26, 4:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MLB	Brevard	2 hr
Oct 26, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		117 min
Oct 26, 5:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Seminole	117 min
Oct 26, 5:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Brevard	118 min
Oct 26, 6:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MLB	Brevard	113 min
Oct 26, 6:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Lake	2 hr
Oct 26, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		57 min
Oct 26, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Martin	41 min
Oct 26, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	40 min
Oct 26, 6:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MLB	Lake	119 min
Oct 26, 7:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Lake, Volusia	116 min
Oct 26, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	46 min
Oct 26, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		58 min
Oct 26, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		88 min
Oct 26, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		86 min
Oct 26, 7:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MLB	Brevard	113 min
Oct 26, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Saint Lucie	50 min
Oct 26, 7:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	3 hr
Oct 26, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Indian River	35 min
Oct 26, 7:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	MLB	Brevard	6 hr

Nearby

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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.