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Special Weather Statement, NWS Melbourne, FL

August 4, 2026Indian River County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2026, 2:31 PM EDT for Indian River County, Florida. It was in force for 44 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, 2026, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2026, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Indian River County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 55 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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 1707 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 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, 1:43 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 1:43 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:31 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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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, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		62 min
Aug 4, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Saint Lucie	37 min
Aug 4, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Osceola	50 min
Aug 4, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		88 min
Aug 4, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	37 min
Aug 4, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Martin	31 min
Aug 4, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		57 min
Aug 4, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		98 min
Aug 4, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Brevard	49 min
Aug 4, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Lake	46 min
Aug 4, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	50 min
Aug 4, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	44 min
Aug 4, 4:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Martin	114 min
Aug 4, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	52 min
Aug 4, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Martin	48 min
Aug 4, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	42 min
Aug 4, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		84 min
Aug 4, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MLB		2 hr
Aug 4, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	47 min
Aug 4, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Volusia	88 min
Aug 4, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MLB	Volusia	24 min
Aug 4, 6:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Volusia	2 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.