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Freeze Warning 4, NWS Melbourne, FL

January 26, 20265 counties in Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this freeze warning at Jan 26, 2026, 11:57 PM EST for 5 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 28, 2026, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 26, 2026, 11:57 PM EST (04:57 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 28, 2026, 12:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 28, 2026, 9:00 AM EST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL

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

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:57 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 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2026-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2026-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Jan 26, 9:18 PM EST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 9:18 PM EST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 8:19 PM ESTWind AdvisoryMLBBrevard, Indian River, Martin, Saint Lucie, Volusia8 hr
Jan 26, 11:57 PM ESTCold Weather AdvisoryMLBBrevard, Indian River, Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola and 2 more33 hr
Jan 26, 11:57 PM ESTFreeze WatchMLBLake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia24 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.