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High Surf Advisory 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this high surf advisory at Mar 27, 2026, 2:22 PM EDT for 5 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 28, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 49 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2026, 2:22 PM EDT (18:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2026, 3:18 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Brevard County, FL, Indian River County, FL, Martin County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Mar 27, 2:17 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 2:17 PM EDT, 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:15 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Lake, Martin, Orange, Osceola and 3 more | 50 hr |
| Mar 27, 2:16 PM EDT | Gale Warning | MLB | 45 hr | |
| Mar 27, 2:22 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Martin, Saint Lucie, Volusia | 19 days |
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.