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Freeze Warning 9, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this freeze warning at Feb 23, 2026, 12:15 AM EST for 9 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 24, 2026, 2:00 AM EST. It was in force for 6 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
- Feb 23, 2026, 12:15 AM EST (05:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2026, 2:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2026, 7:57 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Brevard County, FL, Indian River County, FL, Lake County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:17 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 22, 6:37 PM EST, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 6:37 PM EST, 5 hours 38 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 12:15 AM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Lake, Martin, Okeechobee, Orange and 4 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:12 AM EST | Rip Current Statement | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Martin, Saint Lucie, Volusia | 4 days |
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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.