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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 4, 2025Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2025, 2:34 PM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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 4, 2025, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2025, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 1364 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Aug 4, 1:54 PM EDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 1:54 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:34 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Melbourne FL
234 PM EDT Mon Aug 4 2025

FLZ041-141-041900-
Coastal Volusia FL-Inland Volusia FL-
234 PM EDT Mon Aug 4 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN VOLUSIA COUNTY
THROUGH 300 PM EDT...

At 233 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
DeLand Airport, or 7 miles southwest of Daytona Beach, moving
southwest at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Daytona Beach, Port Orange, Ormond Beach, DeLand, and New Smyrna
Beach.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or hard-topped vehicle. Remember, when
thunder roars, go indoors!

&&

LAT...LON 2943 8109 2907 8090 2899 8128 2928 8144
      2929 8142 2926 8142 2927 8115 2941 8116
      2942 8114
TIME...MOT...LOC 1833Z 065DEG 12KT 2912 8119

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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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 4, 12:52 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		53 min
Aug 4, 1:37 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Brevard	102 min
Aug 4, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		54 min
Aug 4, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Volusia	21 min
Aug 4, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Volusia	32 min
Aug 4, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee	29 min
Aug 4, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee	27 min
Aug 4, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Okeechobee	34 min
Aug 4, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	33 min
Aug 4, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	37 min
Aug 4, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	28 min
Aug 4, 7:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	13 min
Aug 4, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	31 min
Aug 4, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	22 min
Aug 4, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	29 min
Aug 4, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Orange, Osceola	25 min
Aug 4, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	34 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.