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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 21, 2026Osceola County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2026, 5:51 PM EDT for Osceola County, Florida. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 21, 2026, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired
Aug 21, 2026, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Melbourne, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Osceola County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 264 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2026-08-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2174 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2026-08-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2174 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 2:22 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB53 min
Aug 21, 2:55 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB39 min
Aug 21, 2:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBSaint Lucie33 min
Aug 21, 5:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBOsceola29 min
Aug 21, 5:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBOsceola23 min
Aug 21, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBOsceola30 min
Aug 21, 5:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBOkeechobee32 min
Aug 21, 6:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBOkeechobee28 min
Aug 21, 6:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBOrange25 min
Aug 21, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard, Osceola48 min
Aug 21, 6:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBOrange30 min
Aug 21, 6:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBIndian River25 min
Aug 21, 6:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBMartin32 min
Aug 21, 6:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBBrevard26 min
Aug 21, 6:37 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB68 min
Aug 21, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard31 min
Aug 21, 7:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBSeminole26 min
Aug 21, 7:18 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB31 min
Aug 21, 7:45 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMLB60 min
Aug 21, 7:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMLBSeminole28 min
Aug 21, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMLBBrevard, Volusia16 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.